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forth through this country to the camps of the enemy and make for my- 
selfaname.’’ He got up from his bed, put on his leggings and clothing, 
took his quiver with bow and arrows, and went out to catch his ponies. 
One was a bald-faced bay horse; the other was a mouse-colored horse. 
He got upon the back of one of the horses and led the other one away. 
He traveled for many days over the plains. At last he stopped to rest 
and began to make camp, when he found out that he had forgotten to 
bring anything to make fire with. He killed game, but ate only kidneys 
and some other things that he could eat raw. He thought that he was 
going to die of hunger. 
One night he lay down and he had a dream, in which he saw a man 
standing near him, who had on a fine pair of leggings that were fringed 
with human scalps and trimmed with eagle feathers, and he had the 
bear claws about his neck. The man spoke to the boy and said: ‘‘It 
is now time that you know who I am. I stand between the people and 
the spirits. From this time on I will take charge of you and I will make 
a great man of you. I want you to go towards the southwest until you 
come to a high hill. I have placed something for you upon that hill.”’ 
The next morning the boy mounted one of his ponies, and led the 
other pony to the high hill. He sat down upon the hill and there he 
saw human beings coming up from a stream of water. These beings 
looked like eagles, but they walked around like men. The boy thought 
to himself: ‘‘That man whom I saw in my dream must have meant 
these people. I will go to them and see what they are.’’ He put his 
hands upon the ground to support himself in rising. As he did so he 
touched something, and he picked the thing up and looked at it and he 
found that it was a flint knife. He took it, for he did not have a knife 
about him and he knew that it was what the man had promised him in 
his dream. He putitin his belt, mounted his pony, and went towards the 
water. Before he arrived at the water he saw a drove of buffalo. The 
boy killed a buffalo and with his knife skinned it. He made camp and 
remained at that place for several days while drying meat, so that he 
would have meat to eat when on his other journeys. While there he 
again saw the mysterious being in his sleep. The being told him to go 
to a certain place, and there upon another hill he would see two sticks 
that he must take and rub together and fire would come from them. 
The next day the young man traveled and traveled until towards even- 
ing he arrived at the place. As he neared the top of the hill he thought 
that he saw fire-flies go from one weed to another, but soon he saw that 
they were sparks of fire. When he came to the place the boy found a 
weed in the center of a bunch of other weeds. This he took and also 
