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White Pigeon visited the olil man. being just '20 years after the sec- 

 ond visit. The old man did not know that he was talking to the chief 

 of the jjigeons, for he appeared to him in all respects as a man. 



Tlie White Pigeon informed the old man that thereafter as long as 

 the world should last men and women would die because they had 

 disobeyed the rules proclaimed by the Pigeon people. And, further, 

 that in the future people must not kill any white pigeon, and that 

 they must observe the rules for the hunting of pigeons, and that this 

 was his last visit to him. And immediately he flew away. 



The conditions among the people did not change for the better; 

 the several factions still existed, and there seemed to be no common 

 purpose in the community; some of the factions observed the rules 

 for hunting, some only in part, while still others paid no attention 

 to them, even mocking those who did. Some years passed when a 

 stranger came among this people and finding his way to the lodge 

 of the old man he said to him, " You must accompany me." Without 

 any question the old man followed him, for he regarded him as a man 

 like himself. 



They traveled for a number of days until finally they came to the 

 place in which lived the tribe of the stranger, which was a place 

 situated on the top of very lofty mountains. The stranger's friends 

 received tlie old man with every mark of respect and kindness. This 

 people were the Donyonda (i. e.. Eagle people), although to the old 

 man they appeared to him as men like himself. 



There were among the old man's people persons without faith in 

 the teachings of the old man which he reported he had learned from 

 the White Pigeon. And there came a day when a man of the Crow 

 tribe of people told one of these disbelievers that the old man. their 

 chief, was at that time living among the Donyonda. or Eagle people, 

 and offered to conduct him to the land of the Donyonda people. The 

 disbeliever accepted the proposal of the Crow man and so they set 

 out together. The Crow man and his companion finally reached the 

 land of the Donyonda people on the top of a very lofty mountain. 



The old chief recognized the man from his home, but he would 

 have nothing at all to do with him either by word or act. He even 

 went so far as to say to his adopted friends, "This man has come 

 here for no good purpose ; the working of his mind is very different 

 from that of ours." Consequently, the chief man of the Donyonda 

 people ordered one of their warriors to take this man away and to 

 throw him onto the moon. So on the following day the warrior 

 placed the man on his back and bore him swiftly away ; and when 

 he reached the side of the moon he cast the man onto the moon's side 

 and left him there, and he remains there to this day. 



But old Qliief Wild Cat lived with the Donyonda people for a 

 number of years. As time passed, however, the mind of the old chief 



