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brought on actual fighting, and the Bears left that region and traveled 
westward. As with all the other people, they halted, built houses, and 
planted, remaining stationary for a long while; this occurred at different 
places along their route. 
A portion of these people had wings, and they flew in advance to sur- 
vey the land, and when the main body were traversing an arid region 
they found water for them. Another portion had claws with which they 
dug edible roots, and they could also use them for scratching hand and 
foot holes in the face of a steep cliff. Others had hoofs}; and these car- 
ried the heaviest burdens; and some had balls of magic spider web, 
which they could use on occasion for ropes, and they could also spread 
the web and use it as a mantle, rendering the wearer invisible when he 
apprehended danger. 
They too came to the Tségi (Canyon de Chelly), where they found 
houses but no people, and they also built houses there. While living 
there a rupture occurred, a portion of them separating and going far to 
the westward. These seceding bands are probably that branch of the 
Bears who claim their origin in the west. Some time after this, but how 
long after is not known, a plague visited the canyon, and the greater 
portion of the people moved away, but leaving numbers who chose to 
remain. They crossed the Chinli valley and halted for a short time at a 
place a short distance northeast from Great Willow water (‘‘ Eighteen 
Mile Spring”). They did not remain there long, however, but moved a 
few miles farther west, to a place occupied by the Fire people who lived 
in a large oval house. The ruin of this house still stands, the walls from 
5 to 8 feet high, and remarkable from the large-sized blocks of stone 
used in their construction; it is still known to the Hopituh as Tebywt- 
ki, the Fire-house. Here some fighting occurred, and the Bears moved 
westward again to the head of Antelope (Jeditoh) Canyon, about 4 miles 
from Keam’s Canyon and about 15 miles east from Walpi. They built 
there a rambling cluster of small-roomed houses, of which the ground 
plan has now become almost obliterated. This ruin is called by the 
Hopituh “the ruin at the place of wild gourds.” They seem to have 
occupied this neighborhood for a considerable period, as mention is made 
of two or three segregations, when groups of families moved a few miles 
away and built similar house clusters on the brink of that canyon. 
The Fire-people, who, some say, were of the Horn people, must have 
abandoned their dwelling at the Oval House or must have been driven 
out at the time of their conflict with the Bears, and seem to have traveled 
directly to the neighborhood of Walpi. The Snakes allotted them a 
place to build in the valley on the east side of the mesa, and about two 
miles north from the gap. A ridge of rocky knolls and sand dunes lies 
at the foot of the mesa here, and close to the main cliff isa spring. There 
are two prominent knolls about 400 yards apart and the summits of these 
are covered with traces of house walls; also portions of walls can be dis- 
cerned on all the intervening hummocks. The place is known as Sikyat- 
