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THE WARRIORS WHO WERE CHANGED TO SNAKES. 323 
follows: “Oho! Call yonder to him,” referring to the boy. The boycame. “Come, O 
servant! look at us. O servant! you know that you did not eat because you feared 
this,” said he. The boy stood crying. And the war-chief said, “It is a hopeless case. 
You alone will live. Do try to go homeward. We give to you everything which we 
sought in our travels.” They gave him their sacredness (or, their charms). ‘You 
have waited this long for us, yet when it is day, you can go.” At length the boy was 
afraid of leaving them. “Having filled one of the large robes, you will please carry 
us on your back. Please put us on a good land, on one of those large hills,” said the 
war-chief, And it was day. All were sitting just so, coiled up and upon one another. 
And having taken a large robe, he put them in it. And he departed, carrying them. 
A very good hill was there. There he put them. It was not a small hill; it was a 
hill with a curvilinear top, like the one extending yonder, with two trees set down on 
the middle of the curvilinear top. And he put them there, by the bottom of the trees. 
As they knew that he was about to go homeward, all the Snakes lay thick over the boy 
(t. €., they covered the surface of his body, as he stood); they passed over his body. 
And leaving them, he went homeward. And he reached home at the lodges. ‘He 
who was the war-chief ate an animal, and changed his body into that sort of animal. 
He said that he wished to see whatever he has, in the summer, you who are his rela- 
tions, the women and children, and even his horses,” said the boy. The war-chief 
who was partly a Snake had said, “In the summer I wish to see the lodges at any 
rate.” And when it was summer, they removed the camp. They arrived there. “We 
have come. Here it is,” said the boy. And the people said, ‘Let us camp just here.” 
And the women, the children, in fact all, arrived there. When they arrived there, 
behold, the Snakes came in sight. They had made dens there. “Those are they. 
Beware lest you fear them. Those are they. Beware lest you flee from them. Stand 
still,” said the boy. At length all the Snakes lay thick on the boy. They went beyond 
him. The people stood ina row. And they condoled with them. They made a great 
uproar by crying. In fact, all condoled with them. And when the Snakes had gone 
throughout the line, and had passed over the bodies of the people, they were fully 
satistied. And the Snakes were in a row at the dens, sitting with one another. They 
lay looking at the crowd of people. Their horses were placed there tied; the packs, 
the saddles too, the whips, bows, the leggings which they had abandoned when they 
were approaching to kill the Snake, also the moccasins which they had abandoned 
when they were approaching—all were put there. And it was another winter. Again 
they removed and came to the place. And then the Snakes were invisible. The 
horses which they had left, and which had recently dropped manure, were missing. 
Therefore it is reported that they took them back into their dens, 
