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and at last found the trail, overgrown 
with bracken but still visible. I blazed 
it again as I went and in an hour was 
back in camp. 
O LD Albert this night was strange- 
ly absorbed and after we had 
cleared the camp, seemed to be 
anxious to tell his thoughts, an unusual 
thing with him. He said: “It is long 
since I have made the mind travel to 
these things but it is well I should tell 
what little I can remember; it may help 
my people if the old stories are retold.” 
I assured him that I would try to the 
best of my ability, to present them to 
the public. This seemed to please him 
and from then on he told me all he could 
remember without reserve: 
“This is of the old time — the story of 
the Two Brothers: 
Of all the Divine Ones none were 
more honored than the sisters Be’na (the 
Changing Seasons) and Shin’gebis 
(Water, Air and Sky). Each sister 
bore a son; the son of Be’na was Osse’o 
(the Evening Star) and the son of 
Shin’gebis was Unktahee’ (God of the 
Water). At this time there were in the 
world many gods unfriendly to man ; evil 
beings, giants and monsters who de- 
stroyed the people (these are the per- 
sonifications of the dangers that lie in 
nature). When the sons were grown 
they went to slay the Evil Spirits, that 
the people might be saved. The brothers 
asked their mothers, ‘Who is our father?’ 
and the mothers always answered, ‘You 
have no father.’ One day they set out 
to find him for themselves. They took 
a Holy trail and journeyed on a sunbeam, 
Mudjekeewis (the West Wind) guiding 
them, whispered counsel in their ears. 
Their father was Ghee’zis (the Sun) 
whose house was in the East on the shore 
of the Great Waters. There he dwelt 
with his wife, his daughters and his 
sons, the Black Thunder and the Blue 
Thunder. 
Until the coming of the brothers, the 
wife of the Sun did not know that her 
husband had visited the goddesses on 
earth. Nor would he believe that the 
two strange brothers were his sons until 
he had proved them so by making them 
undergo all kinds of trials which the 
youths came through unharmed. Then 
Ghee’zis rejoiced that these were indeed 
his children and promised to give them 
what they asked. They wanted weapons 
to slay the Evil Ones of the earth and 
Ghee’zis gave them the four lightnings 
that flashed from heaven, a mighty knife 
of stone and arrows of rainbows and of 
sunbeams. So the brothers slew the Evil 
Ones and after the victory returned to 
their mothers, rejoicing. 
Then Ghee’zis came to Be’na, and 
begged her to make a home for him in 
the West where he might -rest at evening 
after his long day’s journey across the 
skies. Long he pleaded until at last she 
consented and said, ‘I will go and make 
a home for you if you will give me what 
I ask. You have a beautiful house in 
the East. I must have as beautiful a 
home in the West, beyond the shore and 
( floating amid the waters. Around the 
house you must plant all kinds of gems, 
that they may illumine the earth.’ Ghee- 
zis granted every wish and now beyond 
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