cusHiNQ] TKE RAINBOW-WOKM AND K'YAK'lU. 409 



"Thanks this day! " said the liaiiibuw. " Mount, now, on my shoul- 

 ders, grandson ! " 



The Kainbo(v unbent himself lower that K'yak'lu might mount ; then 

 he arched himself high amidst the clouds, bearing K'yiik'lu upward as 

 in the breath a mote is borne, and the Duck spread her wings iu flight 

 toward the south. Thitherward, like an arrow, the Eaiubow-worm 

 straightened himself forward and followed until his face looked into 

 the Lake of the Ancients, the mists whereof were to him breath and 

 substance. 



And there in tlie plain to the north of Ka"hluelane, K'yiik'lu 

 descended even ere the sun was fully entered, and while yet it was 

 light, the Eainbow betook himself swiftly back. 



But alas! K'yiik'lu was weary and lame. He could not journey 

 farther, but sat himself down to rest and ponder the way. 



THE TARRYING OF K'YAK'LU IN THE PLAIN, AND HIS DISMAY. 



Now, as he sat there, all silent, came across the plains the shouts 

 and harangues of the Kii'yemiishi as they called loudly to one another, 

 telling, like children, of the jjeople who had but then forded the wide 

 river, and passed on to the eastward "with such great ado," said they. 



For the children of the Twain knew not yet the people of their parents, 

 nor did their parents tell them aught, save to bid them hide iu the 

 mountains; for they willed not that their shame be made known 

 whilst the hearts of their erstwhile i^eople were so sore with anguish. 



And as K'yiik'lu, the wonderful hearer, lifted his head and signed to 

 the Duck, forthwith knowing from the talk of the Kii'yemiishi who 

 they were and what had chanced to their parents, his own brother and 

 sister, and all the evils that had befallen his iieople by the sin and 

 change-makings of these two. Lo ! the strength of his heart wasted as 

 he bowed him down again in the plain, alone, blinded of sight, wearied 

 and lamed, and now from very sadness blinded even of thought withal, 

 now that he learned of the woes which the two, his own brother and 

 sister, had wrought upon all of the people. The Duck, long waiting, at 

 last shook her shells and called to him. He heard not, or hearing gave 

 no heed, but sat, like one bereft of all thinking, lamenting the deeds 

 of his brother and sister and the woes of his people. 



HOW THE DUCK FOUND THE LAKE OF THE DEAD AND THE GODS 



OF THE KA'KA. 



The Duck thereupon fled away toward the mountain whence issued 

 the garrulous talking, and thence beyond, spying water, to the lake in 

 its hollow. There she swam to and fro, this way and that, up and down, 

 loudly quacking and calling. Lo! the lights of the Kiwitsiu of the 

 Ka'kii began to gleam iu the waters, and as she gazed she beheld, rising 

 from them, snout foremost, like one of her own kind, the S^lamopia 

 of the north, whom the gods of the Ka'ka, the noble and surpassing 



