XXXVI INTRODUCTION, 
tobacco, which you must smoke; it has been lighted by the sun’s rays, 
and for this I beg you to give me a good dance; be with me! Earth, I 
beg you to give me a good dance, and I offer to you food of humming- 
bird’s plumes and precious stones, and tobacco to smoke lighted by the 
sun’s rays, to pay for using you for the dance; make a good solid 
ground for me, that the gods who come to see the dance may be pleased 
at the ground their people dance upon; make my people healthy and 
strong of mind and body. 
In addition to his exhaustive account of the Hasjelti Dailjis 
and of the curious dry-sand painting which the Navajo in com- 
mon with the Pueblo tribes make a prominent feature of their 
mysteries, and of which illustrations are furnished, Mr. Steven- 
son presents translations of six of the Navajo myths, some of 
which elucidate parts of the ceremony forming the main title 
of his paper. These myths are set forth in a simple and 
straightforward style, which gives intrinsic evidence that they 
retain the spirit of the original. They are certainly free from 
the pretentious embellishment and literary conceit which have 
perverted nearly all the published forms of Indian myths and 
tales hitherto accessible to general readers, and have even mis- 
led the numerous special students who had no facilities for 
verification. 
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