54 THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE WICHITA. 
He was traveling alone, so he went fast, for he did not have to 
wait for any one. Some time afterward he came to the place where the 
four men had turned back, and he saw that there were but four men 
besides the one who had gone on further south. He kept on and on, 
until he came to one of the men who had given out. When he went 
near to this man, he found him to be pretty angry with him, for he 
was not used to seeing people. But the nephew told the man who he 
was, and that he had come a long way in search of them. But the 
man would not believe him, for he knew that the distance was too 
great for anyone to travel. So the nephew took out his pipe and made 
the man smoke his pipe. He lighted his pipe and gave it to the man. 
The man then took four puffs and then emptied the pipe. Then he 
drew back, and said: “O yes! It is a surprise to me to see some one 
come from my old home. This reminds me of being in my home in the 
village of Large-elm-Tree-near-Edge-of-the-Village, or Where-Black- 
birds-lit-on-elm-Tree, or Stone-Corn-Mill-lying-on-Hill-side, or Where- 
large-Ears-of-Corn-grow.” He then put a handful of meal into the 
man’s mouth. Then the man said: “Yes, that is just the way every- 
thing tastes back home, but I am so far away that I can not get back. 
But your uncle and his other followers went on, and you are now on 
the right road to them, and you will find another man further down, 
and he will tell you the same thing, and more, too.” ‘The nephew con- 
tinued his journey to his uncle’s place, and, as he went further, he 
came to another man sitting down and facing the south. When this 
man found that some one was coming, he was angry, too. But the 
nephew told the man that he had come from a long way, looking for 
them; and that he was the nephew to their leader. The man then re- 
plied, “Well, show me something, so that I may believe you, that I 
may know if you came from my home.” The nephew filled his pipe 
for the man to smoke, lighted it and gave it to him. The man puffed 
only four times, then emptied the pipe. He drew back, and said, “Well, 
this is the way the old home smoke tastes.” Then the nephew gave the 
man a handful of cornmeal, and the man said, “This reminds me of 
being in our old home in the village far to the north.” Of course, he 
also named the village names. The man then told him that this was 
as far as he had been able to go, and that he had often wished that he 
was back at his former home, but that he never could get there. The 
man told the nephew that his uncle was further south and that there 
was another man further south that could tell him more about his 
uncle. The man said that this also was as far as he could go. All this 
man would do was to sit up. So the young nephew noticed that the 
man ‘was about to turn into something. 
