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at night to the place where he started in the morning. The next morning 
he asked Pokoh the road, and he showed him, but he traveled all day, and 
came back at night to the same place again. But the third day he started 
early, and went right out to the edge of the world and sat down on the 
hole where the sun came up. While waiting for the sun he pointed with 
his bow and arrow toward various places, as if he were about to shoot, and 
pretended not to see the sun. When the sun came up he told the coyote 
to get out of his way. But the coyote told him to go round, that it was his 
road, and he would not get out of the way. But the sun came up under 
him, and he had to hitch forward a little. After the sun came up a little 
way it began to get hot on the coyote’s shoulder, and he spit on his paw 
and rubbed his shoulder. Then he wanted to ride up with the sun, The 
sun tried to persuade him not to do it, but he would go. So he got on, and 
the sun started up a path in the sky which was marked off into steps like 
a ladder, and as he went up he counted ‘one, two, three”, ete. Presently 
the coyote got very thirsty, and he asked the sun for a drink of water. He 
gave him an acorn-cup full, and the coyote asked him why he had no more. 
Toward noon he got impatient. It was very hot, and the sun told him to 
close his eyes. He did so, but opened them again, and so kept opening 
and shutting them all the afternoon. At night, when the sun came down, 
the coyote took hold of a tree, clambered off, and got down to the ground. 
In this pathway of the sun, with steps like a ladder, there is undoubt- 
edly a trace of an ancient zodiac myth. Some persons insist that the In- 
dians must have learned this from the Mexicans or the early Jesuits. The 
story is sufficiently poor, certainly, but such as it is it must be the inven- 
tion of the Indians in everything except the one little particular of the 
graded pathway, at any rate, for no civilized person would have conceived 
such a fable. These critics, then, would leave the Indians everything but 
this item; but this they would take away from them because it has a faint 
suspicion of civilization about it! Such reasoning is contemptible. 
THE MONO. 
In their own language these Indians call themselves Nit’-ha. Why 
the Spaniards named them Mono (monkeys) is not very clear. Although 
