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of -wounds ill tlie body, led the enemy, crying out shrilly; all of which, 

 yea and more, beyond the words of a sitting, is told in other speeches 

 of our ancient talks, those of the Ka'ka. Thus, it fell out ill for the 

 flghting of our impetuous ancients; for, moreover, thunder raged and 

 confused their warriors, rain descended and blinded them, stretching 

 their bow-strings of sinew, and quenching the flight of their arrows as 

 the flight of bees is quenched by the sprinkling-plume of the honey 

 hunter. But the strong 'Hleetokwe devised bowstrings of yucca, 

 and the Two Little Ones sought counsel of the Sun-father, who 

 revealed the life-secret of the Demoness and the magic power over 

 the under-fires (MUne) of the dwellers in the mountains and cliffs; 

 so that after certain days the enemy in the mountain town were over- 

 mastered. And becaus(! our peoi)le found in that great town some 

 survivors hidden deep in the cellars thereof, and xilucked them forth as 

 rats are iiulled from a hollow cedar, and found them blackened by the 

 fumes of their own war-magic, yet comely and wiser than the common 

 lot of men withal, they spared them and called them the Kwinikwa. 

 kwe (Black people), and received them into their kin of the Black Corn. 



THE ADOPTION OF THE BLACK PEOPLE, AND THE DIVISION OF 

 THE CLANS TO SEARCH FOR THE MIDDLE. 



Now for once even the Warriors of the Bow were fully surfeited of 

 fighting, and paused to rest. Thus, warm hands of brothers elder 

 and younger were clasped with the vanquished; and in time (for at 

 first these people were wild of tongue) speech was held with them, 

 whereby our fathers gained much knowledge, even of their own powers 

 and possessions, from these Black people, in like manner as they had 

 gained knowledge from the People of the Dew, whence in like manner 

 also they grew wiser in the ways of living, and loved more to cherish 

 their corn and corn virgins that they might have life and abundance 

 rather than cause death and hunger. Yet were their journeyings not 

 ended. Again, and anon, the shell souuded warning. 



When, therefore, the Twain Little Ones, Ahaiyuta and Matsailema, 

 again bade the people arise to seek the Middle, they divided them 

 into great companies, that they might fare the better (being fewer in 

 numbers together) as well as be the better content with thinking that, 

 thus scattered, they would the sooner find the place they had for so 

 long sought. So, again the Winter people were bidden to go north- 

 ward, that ill their strength they might overcome evils and obstacles 

 and with their bows strung with slackless fiber of the yucca, conteud, 

 winning their way with the enemy in cold weather or warm, and in 

 rain and dryness alike. With them, as aforetime, they carried their 

 precious miietone, and with them journeyed Matsailema aud the War- 

 riors of the Knife, they and chosen Priests of the Bow. 



Also, to the southward, as before, journeyed the Seed people aud the 

 kinties of Corn and others of the Summer people, they and with them 



