than before, until at last he was tired and came down again.
When he reached home he found his father very weak, but still alive,
and one draw at the pipe made him strong again. The people planted
the seed and have had tobacco ever since.
7. THE JOURNEY TO THE SUNRISE
A long time ago several young men made up their minds to find the
place where the Sun lives and see what the Sun is like. They got
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ready their bows and arrows, their parched corn and extra moccasins,
and started out toward the east. At first they met tribes they knew,
then they came to tribes they had only heard about, and at last to
others of which they had never heard.
There was a tribe of root eaters and anotherof acorn eaters, with
great piles of acorn shells near their houses. In one tribe they found
a sick man dying, and were told it was the custom there when a man
died to bury his wife in the same grave with him. They waited until
he was dead, when thev saw his friends lower the body into a great
pit, so deep and dark that from the top they could not see the bottom.
Then a rope was tied around the woman's body, together with a bun-
dle of pine knots, a lighted pine knot was put into her hand, and she
was lowered into the pit to die there in the darkness after the last pine
knot was burned.
The young men traveled on until they came at last to the sunrise
place where the sky reaches