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him, as we preciously and secretly receive with the cigarette of rela- 

 tioiishii) a returning relative, and purify him and ourselves ere he 

 speak, that he may not bring evil or we receive it, perchance, with the 

 breath of his strange words. 



Thus the fathers of the people did to K'yiik'lu and the ancient ones, 

 receiving them into secret council. And as one who returns famished 

 is not given to eat save sparingly at first of the flour of drink 

 {6Jc^y/islu), so with this only was K'yak'lu regaled; but his bearers 

 were laden speedily with gifts of food and garments which, forsooth, 

 they would not wear save in disorderly ways. Then K'yiik'lu spake 

 a message of comfort to the mourners, telling them how, below the waters 

 into which their little ones had sunken, they were dwelling in peace 

 amongst the gods, and how all men and mothers would follow them 

 thither in other ijart in the fulness of each one's time. 



And then, holding in his hand the Duck, the guide to his blindness, 

 he spake m measured motion and tone, to the sound of the shells on 

 the neck of the Duck, the words of creation, K'yalc'lu Mosonan Ghim'- 

 mik^yana¥ya imiane, and of his wanderings, and the speeches of gods 

 and beings as they had been told him, and the directions of the sacred 

 customs, all did he tell ceaselessly as is still his wont from mid-day to 

 mid-day to each one of the six councils, that no part be forgotten. 



Thus did our people first learn of their lost messengers, all save two 

 of them, Anahoho dclii, and of their lost children in the City of 

 Ghosts; yea, of the spirit beings and man, animal, and of the souls of 

 ancient men dead beforetime; yea, and yet more learned they — that all 

 would gather there even those who had fled away in fear of the waters, 

 in the fulness of time. 



THE ENJOINING OF THE K'YAK'LU AMOSI, AND THE DEPARTURE 

 OF K'YAK'LU AND THE OLD-ONES. 



And when K'yiik'lu had done speaking, he and the ancient ones 

 breathed into the nostrils of those who had listened, and into the mouths 

 of four chosen from amongst them (small of stature like as he was) he 

 spat, that their tongues might speak unfailingly the words he had 

 uttered. And these became the K'yiik'lu Amosi, whose office we still 

 keep amongst us. Then the ancient ones lifted him upon the litter, and 

 loudly joking about their gifts and bidding men call tliem ever with the 

 Ka'kii that they might receive more hdha, they sang of how the young 

 women and maidens would wait for them as for lovers, bringing them 

 the water of guests to drink, and amid laughter they bore K'yiik'lu back 

 whence they had come, to the mountain and city of the Ka'kii (Ka'- 

 'hluai ydlane). 



THE COMING OF THE BROTHERS ANAHOHO AND THE RUNNERS 



OF THE KA'KA. 



Now, when they had dejjarted, there came from the west, behold ! two 

 strangers seeming, guided by the Salamopia, and all the fleet runners 



