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of the Ka'ka then first seen of men and feared as by children now, for 

 they were fierce and scourged people from their pathways to make room 

 for those they guided. For know that these were the two brothers Ana- 

 hoho who had returned to the desolate cities of their people. Therein 

 had they sought in vain for the living in the blackened houses. They 

 even tore down the chimneys and peered in, seeking for iheir brother 

 K'yiik'lu, and when they found him not they smote their faces and held 

 their noses in grief, and all black as were their hands with soot, lo ! thus 

 became their faces, flat and masked with the black hand-mark of dis- 

 may, and as they held their faces they cried dismally and long. 



THE DISPATCHING OF THE SOULS OF THINGS TO THE fcOULS OF 



THE DEAD. 



No .sooner did they come into the village of our fathers than they 

 began turning over the things from which the people had fled, and cast- 

 ing them down where the SAlamopia stamped them into the eartli or 

 otherwise destroyed them that their likes might go the way of the dead 

 for the dead and the Ka'ka. And when the people saw this, they brought 

 forth vessels and baskets and other things without stint, all of which, 

 as though all were chimneys, the Twain Anahoho took up, and peer- 

 ing into them lifted their faces and cried their dreary mournful cry, 

 casting these things straightway to the ground. Thus to this day they 

 follow their brother, seeking ever, finding never, sending after their 

 brother the souls of men's possessions that all may be well in the after 

 time, in the after time of each age of man. 



THE RENEWAL OF THE GREAT JOURNEYING AND OF THE 

 SEARCH FOR THE MIDDLE. 



Long sojourned the people in the town on the sunrise slope of the 

 mountain of Ka"hluelawan, and what though the earth in time 

 began to groan warningly anew, loath were they to leave the place of the 

 Ka'ka and the lake of their dead. But the rumbling grew louder 

 apace, and at last the Twain Beloved called, and bade the people arise, 

 and all together — now that their multitudes were in part diminished — 

 follow them eastward, seeking once more the place of the Middle. Not 

 without murmuring among themselves did the people obey; but after 

 they had fared forward a certain distance they came to a place of fair 

 seeming and great promise, so much so, indeed, tliat it was said, "Let 

 us tarry in this favored si)ot, for perchance it may be the place of the 

 Middle." 



And so they builded for themselves there greater houses than ever 

 they had builded, and more i>erfect withal, for they were still great 

 and strong in numbers and wittier than of old, albeit yet unperfected 

 as men; and the place wherein they so builded was Han'hlipiijk'ya, 

 " The Place of Sacred Stealing, " so named in after time for reasons we 

 wot of. 



