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he observed a deer falling in the shrub. He ran to the spot and found 
a dead doe. When he had skinned and dressed it, he could discover 
no high tree at hand that he might hang it on to keep it safe from the 
wolves, so he laid the meat on the top of the cliff rose, spread the skin 
over it, stuck an arrow upright on the top of it, and went home. On 
his way he often said to himself, ‘* Why does ny father bid me never to 
go to the south?” He pondered much on the subject, and before he 
reached the hut he had determined to satisfy his curiosity and to go to 
the south on the first good opportunity. When he got home he told 
where he had laid the meat, and, fearing that the crows or coyotes 
might get at it, he begged his brother to hasten and bringit in. When 
the meat came he asked that a piece might be broiled for his lunch on 
the hunt next day. All that night the thought of his father’s prohibi- 
tion continued to haunt his mind and would not be dismissed. 
22. On the morrow, when he went forth on his hunt, his father gave 
him the usual injunctions. saying: “ Hunt in any direction from the 
lodge that you will; but go not to the south.” He departed as if he 
were going to the east; but when he got out of sight from the hogan 
he turned round to the south and pursued his way in that direction. - 
He went on until he came to the San Juan River, and he forded it at 
a place a little above Beautiful Under the Cottonwoods, where they 
had crossed it before. He went on to a place called Tyél-saka¢ (Erect 
Cat-Tail Rushes) and thence to a place called Dsiski¢ (Clay Hill). Here 
he laid his deer skin mask and his weapons on the ground and climbed 
the hill to observe the surrounding country for game. But instead of 
looking south in the direction in which he was going he looked to the 
north, the country in which dwelt his people. Before him were the 
beautiful peaks of @epéntsa, with their forested slopes. The clouds 
hung over the mountain, the showers of rain fell down its sides, and all 
the country looked beautiful. And he said to the land, “ Aqalani!” 
(greeting), and a feeling of loneliness «nd home-ickness came over him, 
and he wept and sang this song: 
That flowing water! That flowing water! 
My mind wanders across it. 
That broad water! That flowing water! 
My mind wanders across it. 
That old age water! That flowing water! 
My mind wanders across if. 
23. The gods heard his song and they were about to gratify his wishes. 
He was destined to return to (epéntsa, but not in the manner he most 
desired. Had he gazed to the south when he ascended the hill, instead 
of to the north, it might have been otherwise. 
24. He wiped away his tears and went down to the place where he 
had laid his mask and arms at the foot of the hill. He put on his buck- 
skin coat and was just putting on his mask, but had not quite drawn 
it down over his head, when he heard a noise to the south and, looking 
