210 THE MYTHOLOGYOF AE WICHITA. 
at dark came to a place where there had been a fire, and grass fixed 
like a bed. He had come to the place where his other brothers had 
stopped for a night’s rest. He started again the next day, and traveled 
until night, when he came to another camping place. Every time he 
stopped he found traces of a camp. He traveled until he came to the 
place where strangers stopped. Here he stayed until later in the even- 
ing, then went down toward the village and met some one, and asked 
him where he might go for a night’s lodging, and was told to go to the 
highest tipi he had seen. On entering this place the chief told the young 
man to pass on to the bed in the northwest of the tipi. The chief 
always felt sad to see any one coming to visit him, knowing that they 
would have to be killed. The chief told the young man that his place 
was dangerous to visit, for there were some that always were ready to 
kill any one who visited him, and there was no way to escape, once hav- 
ing arrived at this place; that early in the morning he would be called 
to a race, for Shadow-of-the-Sun always had spies to bring him. news 
when there was a visitor present in the village. They went to bed, and 
early next morning the young man heard some hooting and yelling, and 
some one saying that he had heard of some one visiting, and that he was 
to come and have a foot-race before living in the village. The young 
man, the chief, and the Coyote went to the nearest bathing place and 
took their morning bath, then went to the foot-race. Shadow-of-the- 
Sun always started first to a certain place he had to start from. Crowds 
of men came and stood by to see the race. Shadow-of-the-Sun raced 
with the chief first, then with the Coyote, and finally with the young 
man. Shadow-of-the-Sun, in making the course, had fixed it over a 
deep canyon, so then it would be impossible for any one but himself to 
get over it. When it came the turn of the young man to race, they came 
to this place, and Shadow-of-the-Sun said to the young man: “This 
is the place where I always do my hardest racing.” When they came 
to the canyon the young man failed to get over it, and was beaten and 
killed by Shadow-of-the-Sun. The other chief offered his life to 
Shadow-of-the-Sun, but he refused it, and after the race, carried off a 
lot of the chief’s people. 
Now, the father of the four boys had it in mind to visit the village 
of the two chiefs. He said to his wife: “My boys may think they are 
old enough to do what I can do, but they certainly are mistaken.” Al- 
ready the old man knew what had happened to his boys; so before 
starting, he asked his wife to get him a shell. He then took some water 
and some white clay and colored the water, making it white. He 
commanded his wife to look at this once in a while during his absence, 
