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Turtle’s back. The young men were scared and called out to their 
leader. They said: ‘‘Something wonderful has happened to us; we are 
fast.’’ The leader said: ‘‘I can not go on without you, so I will get on 
also.”” The leader stepped upon the Turtle’s back and he also became 
fast. The other men climbed on, and they, too, became fast. The leader 
told the youngest of the warriors to stay upon the ground; to go home 
and tell the people what had happened. The young man followed them 
until at last the Turtle came to a big water and disappeared under it with 
all the warriors. The boy saw the Turtle go into the water, and as the 
men were disappearing under the water the leader of the warriors spoke 
to the boy and told him not to cry, but to go home and tell his people 
that a big Turtle took them into the water; that whenever he should 
want to go upon the war-path he should come to the place, and that 
they would talk to him and tell him where to go to capture ponies. 
The boy remained for several days around the water. One night he 
had a dream. He thought he was under the water and there he saw the 
other men in a lodge under the water. The leader of the warriors spoke . 
to him and said: ‘‘ You must go home and tell the people that we are under 
the water, but that we are living.”” The next day the young man went: 
home. He told the people about the Turtle taking the people into the 
water. Some people believed it and some did not. 
_. Some time afterward the young man went to the place and roby me 
remained for a while. He was finaily taken into the water and there he 
saw different kinds of animals, and the Turtle was the leader of the other, 
animals. The boy was taught many mysteries, and he was then told. 
to go home. When the people saw the boy doing many wonderful things: 
they did not like it. All the people gathered together and said: ‘Let us. 
go to the water where the Turtle took the people.’’ The people moved 
to the place, and when they reached the water they made their village 
near it. They took their skin buckets and began to dip the water and 
throw it to one side. For many days the people dipped the water. At 
last they got to the bottom of the water, and there they found the skele- 
tons of the men who were taken into the water by the Turtle. They could 
not find the Turtle, and so they gave it up. After this was all done, the 
animals did not like the way the people did and they took the power 
away from the boy. | 
