MooNEY] HOW THEY HKortiHT HACK THE TOBACCO 'J55 



huw 111' would go irln)Ut it. The next moment ho was gone and thoy 

 saw him sitting on the phmt, and then in a moment he was baci< again, 

 but no one had seen him going or eomiTig. lieeause he was so swift. 

 ''This is the way I'll do." said the Hunmiingbird, so they let him tiy. 

 He flew off to the east, and when he came in sight of the tobaeco 

 the I^igiirku were watching all about it, l)ut tliey could not see him 

 because he was so small and tlew so swiftl3^ He darted down on the 

 plant — tN((.' — and snatched off the top with the leaves and seeds, and 

 was otl' again before the Dagvll kii knew wiiat had haitpcncd. Before 

 he got home with the tobacco the old woman had fainted and they 

 thought she was dead, l)ut he blew the smoke into her nostrils, and 

 with a cry of " Tsa'Ju! [Tobacco!]" she opened her eyes and was alive 

 again. 



SECOND VERSION 



The people had tobacco in the })eginning, but they had used it all, 

 and there was great suffering for want of it. There was one old 

 man so old that he had to be kept alive by smoking, and as his son 

 did not want to see him die he decided to go himself to trj' and get 

 some more. The tobacco country was far in the south, with high 

 mountains all around it, and the passes were guarded, so that it was 

 very hard to get into it. l»ut the young man was a conjurer and was not 

 afraid. He traveled southward until he came to the mountains on the 

 border of the tobacco country. Then he opened his medicine bag and 

 took out a hummingl)ird skin and put it over himself like a dress. 

 Now he was a hummingl)ird and flew over the mountains to the tobacco 

 tield and pulled some of the leaves and seed and put them into his 

 medicine bag. He was so small and swift that the guards, whoever 

 thev were, did not see him, and when he had taken as much as he could 

 carry he flew back over the mountains in the same way. Then he took 

 off' the hummingbird skin and put it into his medicine bag, and was a 

 man agijiin. He started home, and on his way came to a tree that had 

 a hole in the trunk, like a door, near the first branches, and a very 

 l)i-(>tty woman was looking out from it. He stopped and tried to climl) 

 the tree, but although he was a good climber he found tliat he always 

 slipped back. He put on a pair of medicine moccasins from his ])ouch, 

 and then he could climl) the tree, but when he reached the first branches 

 ho looked up and the hole was still as far away as before. He climbed 

 higher and higher, but ever}' time he looked up the hole seemed to be 

 farther than before, until at last he was tired and came down again. 

 A\'lion lie reached home he found his father very weak. })ut still alive, 

 and one draw at the pipe made him strong again. The people planted 

 the seed and have had tobacco ever since. 



7. THE JOURNEY TO THE SUNRISE 



A long time ago several young men made up tiioir minds to find the 

 place where the Sun lives and see what the Sun is like. They got 



