8 TRADITIONS OF THE CADDO. 
and to go around among the people to call them together whenever 
he might want them. 
One time the errand-man was sent out to tell the people that the 
chief wanted them to assemble ; that he had very important news to 
tell them, and that they should come as quickly as theycould. When 
they had come together the chief told them that they would all have 
to move away from the world that they were living in to another and 
better world ; that he was going to lead them through, for he knew 
the way. ‘The village which they were going to leave was called Old- 
Home-in-the-Darkness. Before the people were ready to leave, the 
chief sent the errand-man around among them to tell them that they 
were to be divided into groups, because there were so many of them ; 
that each group must have a leader, and he would give each leader a 
drum. ‘The people began to form in groups and select their leaders. 
After the groups were all formed and each selected their leader, the 
chief called all the leaders together and gave each a drum, and then 
they were ready to start. The chief told all the leaders that they must 
sing and beat their drums as they were moving along ; that none of 
them should ever look back the way they came, lest the people should 
be stopped and have to stay where they were—in darkness. 
The people began moving westward, and they came out of the ground 
to another world. While they were yet coming out Coyote happened 
to be out. He began to look around, then told the chief that the world 
was too small for the people ; then he turned around and looked back 
in the direction from which they had come. ‘The people had not all 
come out, and so half of them went back, but the others kept on going 
westward. Finally the chief picked up some dirt and threw it in 
front of him and formed very high mountains. When the people came 
to the mountains they stopped and began to make their first homes and 
villages. Moon went to the top of the mountain and looked about and 
found that the people had not all come the way he had come, but had 
scattered and gone in different directions. At the time when the people 
were all together they spoke but one language, the Caddo; but after 
they had scattered out in groups each group spoke a different language. 
For this reason the many tribes of the present time speak different lan- 
guages. When Moon came to his people, the few he had left, he told 
them the name of the place in the ground from which they had come. 
He told them that the direction to their right-hand side should be called 
north, or cold side, and, the direction to their left-hand side should be 
called south, or warm side. While Moon was talking the Sun came up 
out of the east, passed them, and went downin the west. He went too 
fast to do them any good at all. Coyote announced that he was going 
