MooNEY] . tsul'kalu' .'Ul 



Neaivr uiul louder ciiiuo the soiiiul until it yrcw into an awful roar, and 

 every one trcnihlccl and held ids hrcatli — all hut one man. the sti-anifer 

 from the other settlement, wiio lost his senses from fear and ran out 

 of the townhouse and shouted the war cry. 



At onee the roar stopped and for some time there was silence. Then 

 they heard it auiiin. hut as if it wei-e goiny farther away, and then 

 farther and farther, until at last it died away in the direction of 

 T.suiiegun'yi. and then all was still ayain. 'i'he people came out from 

 the townhou.se. but there was silence, and they could se(» nothing- hut 

 what had been seven days before. 



Still the brother was not disheartened, but came ayain to see his 

 sister, and she brought him into t lie mountain. He asked why Tsui ivalu' 

 had not brought the new dresses, as he had promised, and the \()ice 

 from the air said, " I came with them, but j'ou did not obey my word, 

 but broke the fast and raised the war cry." The young man answered, 

 "It was not done by on)- -people, but by a stranger. If you will come 

 again, we will surely do as you say." But the voice answered. ■■ Now 

 you can never see me." Then the young man could not say any more, 

 and he went back to Kanuga. 



82. KANA'STA, THE LOST SETTLEMENT 



Long ago. while people still HvcmI in the old town of Kana'sta, on 

 the French Broad, two strangers, who looked in no way different from 

 other Cherokee, came into the settlement one day and made their way 

 into the chief's house. After the first greetings were over the chief 

 asked them from what town they had come, thinking them from 

 one of the western settlements, but the-j^ said, "■ AVe are of your people 

 and our town is close at hand, but you have never seen it. Here 

 you have wars and sickness, with enemies on every side, and after 

 a while a stronger enemy will come to take your country from you. 

 AVe are alwavs happy, and we have come to invite you to live with us 

 in our town over there." and they pointed toward Tsuwa'ttd'dti (Pilot 

 knob). "We do not liv(> forever, and do not always tind game 

 when we go for it, for the gana^ lielongs to Tsui kahV. who lives in 

 Tsuniiguii'vi, but we have peace always and need not think of danger. 

 We go now, but if your people will live with us let them fast scA'en 

 days, and we sh;dl come then to take them." Then they went ;iway 

 toward the west. 



The chief called his peo])le together into the townhous(> and they held 

 a council over the matter and decided at last to go with the strangers. 

 They got all their property reatly for moving, and then went again into 

 the townhouse and began their fa.st. The}' fasted six days, and on the 

 morning of the seventh, before yet the sun was high, they saw a great 

 company coming along tlie trail from the west, led b}' the two men 



