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which Woannomih had told him, and they observed them, and had plenty 
of acorns and fish to eat, and were happy. 
One day, as the sun was setting, Kiunaddissi’s daughter went out and 
saw a beautiful red cloud, the most lovely cloud ever seen, resting like a 
bar along the horizon, stretching southward. She cried out to her father, 
“Q, father, come and see this beautiful cloud!” He did so. When they 
went back into the house they heard, right in their ears, it seemed to them, 
the sweetest music man ever heard. It continued all the time without. stop- 
ping, and none of them could tell what caused it. 
Next day the daughter took a basket and went out into the plain to 
gather clover to eat. While picking the clover she found a very pretty 
arrow, trimmed with yellow-hammer’s feathers. After gazing at it awhile 
in wonder, she turned to look at her basket, and there beside it stood a man 
who was called Yang-wi'-a-kan-ih (the Red Cloud), who was none other 
than the cloud she had seen the day before. He was so bright and 
resplendent to look upon that she was abashed; she modestly hung down 
her head and uttered not a word. But he said to her, ‘I am not a stranger. 
You saw me last night; you see me every night when the sun is setting. 
I love you; you love me; look at me; be not afraid.” Then she said, 
“Tf you love me, take and eat this basket of grass-seed pinole” He 
touched the basket, and in an instant all the pinole vanished in the air, 
going no man knows whither. Thereupon the girl fell away in a swoon, 
and lay a considerable time there upon the ground. But when the man 
returned to her, behold she had given birth toa son. And the girl was 
abashed, and would not look in his face, but she was full of great joy 
because of her new-born son. And Yangwiakanuh was glad when he looked 
at the babe, and he said to her: ‘‘ You love me now; that is my boy, but 
he is not of this world. You were born in Ushtupeddi; your father was 
born in Ushtupeddi. I know all that, but this, my sen, is not of this world.” 
Then he placed the babe in her basket, and with him he put in also all weap- 
ons which are used by Indians—bows, arrows, spears, slings—but no man 
saw it. And he said to the mother again: ‘In less than five days he shall 
come forth from the basket. He shall be greater than all men; he shall 
have power over all, and not fear any that lives. Therefore shall his name 
