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their several totems, some became like to tbe lizard {mllc^yniya^hli), 

 chameleon {semaiyak^yii), iiud newt {tncashi); others like to the frog 

 {tdk^aiymia), toad (tdk'ya), aud turtle (ctiiicd). But their souls 

 (top^hd'ina, 'other-beiug or in-being'), what with the sense of falling, 

 still falling, sank down through the waters, as water itself, being 

 started, sinks down through the sands into the depths below. There, 

 under the lagoon of the hollow mountain where it was erstwhile cleft 

 in twain by the angry maiden-sister Siwiluhsitsa as before told, dwelt, 

 in their seasons, the soul- beings of ancient men of war and violent death. 

 There were the towns for the 'finished' or dead, Hapanawan or the 

 Abode of Ghosts; there also, the great pueblo (city) of the Ka'ka, 

 Ka"hluelawan, the town of many towns wherein stood forever the 

 great assembly house of ghosts, Ahaiiaawa Klwitsinan'hlana, the 

 kiva which contains the six great chambers in the midst of which sit, 

 at times of gathering in council, the god-priests of all the Ka'ka exer- 

 cising the newly dead in the Ka'k'okshi or dance of good, aud receiv- 

 ing from them the offerings and messages of mortal men to the Immortal 

 ones. 



Now, when the little ones sank, still sank, seeing naught, the lights 

 of the spirit dancers began to break ui>on them, and they became, as 

 be the ancients, ^hlimna, and were numbered with them. And so, 

 being received into the midst of the undying ancients, lo ! these little 

 ones thus made the way of dying and the path of the dead; for 

 whither they led, in that olden time, others, fain to seek them (inso- 

 much that they died), followed; and yet others followed these; and so 

 it has continued to be even unto this day. 



But the mothers, still crying, knew not this — knew not that their 

 children had returned unharmed into the world whence even themselves 

 had come aud whither they too needs now must go, constrained thither 

 by the yearnings of their own hearts in the time of mourning. Loudly, 

 still, they wailed, on the farther shore of the river. 



THE LOSS OF THE GREAT SOUTHERN CLANS. 



The Seed clans arrived, and strove to cross the waters, but as it had 

 chanced to the others so befel it all dismally with them, until loud be- 

 came the commotion and multitudes of those behind, nearing — even 

 many of the Midmost clans — turned and fled afar southward along the 

 bank, seeking a better crossing; fled so far that they were lost to 

 sight speedily and strayed never to return ! 



Nay, they became the fathers and mothers of our Lost Others^lost 

 ever since that time. 



THE SAVING OF THE FATHER-CLANS. 



Lo ! as the people were crying aloud and tossing their hands aloft and 

 the many — so many ! — were fleeing away, came the Beloved Twain, and 



