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The Navajo bet only about one-half of what they won on the former 
race. Again they started the two runners, and in such time as you 
could just mark that the sun had moved, they were back at the goal; 
but this time Indsiskai, the champion of the alien races, won by about 
the same distance as he had lost on the previous occasion. 
76. Then the strangers were satisfied and said, ‘‘ We willtry no more. 
Many of our goods are still with the Navajo; but we have done well 
to rescue what we have.” One of the wise men among them said, “ Yes, 
you have done well, for had you lost the second race you would have lost 
with it the rain and the sunshine and all that makes life glad.” It is 
because the Navajo won so much wealth on this occasion that they 
have been richer than the neighboring races ever since. 
77. The ceremony cured Dsilyi‘ Neyani of all his strange feelings 
and notions. The lodge of his people no longer smelled unpleasant to 
him. But often he would say, “1 know I cannot be with you always, 
for the yays visit me nightly in my sleep. In my dreamsI am onecemore 
among them, and they beg me to return to them.” 
78. From Lejpahico the family moved to Dsildjoltcin¢i (Mountain of 
Hatred). Thence they went to Tsinbilahi( Woods on One Side), and from 
there to Tse‘yucahia‘ (Standing Rock Above). In this place they en- 
camped but one night, and next day they moved to @epé-aga¢ (Sheep 
Promontory), and went on to (epé ¢asi¢i (One Sheep Lying Down). Here 
again they camped for the night. Next day they traveled by Tse‘ateal- 
cali (Rock Cracked in Two) to Teoyajnaski¢ (Hill Surrounded With 
Young Spruce Trees), to Nigaqokai (White Ground), and to Tsetyistci¢ 
(Dipping Rocks, i. e., dipping strata), where they stopped to rest for the 
night. On the following day they journeyed to Gosakazi (Cold Water), 
in which place they encamped again. 
79. When the morning came, Dsilyi‘ Neyani said to his younger 
brother, “ Let us go out and try to shoot some deer, so that we may 
make beca‘ (deer masks), such as we wore in @epéntsa, where we killed 
so many deer.” The brothers departed on the hunt and came to a place 
ealled Dsil-lijin (Black Mountains), and they sat down on the side of 
the mountains looking towards Tsotsil. As they sat there Dsilyi‘ Ne- 
yani said, “ Younger brother, behold the ¢igini!” (holy ones); but the 
younger brother could see no one. Then he spoke again, “ Farewell, 
younger brother! From the holy places the gods come for me. You 
will never see me again; but when the showers pass and the thunder 
peals, ‘There,’ you will say, ‘is the voice of my elder brother, and 
when the harvest comes, of the beautiful birds and grasshoppers you 
will say ‘ There is the ordering of my elder brother.’” 
80. As he said these words he vanished. The younger brother looked 
all around, and seeing no one he started for his home. When he re- 
turned to his people he told them of the departure of Dsilyi‘ Neyani, 
and they mourned as for one dead. 
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