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Rh much farther. Soon after they said this they came to a place where a great lone tree stood and here they declared: "We shall stop at this tree. After a while the people will come here and find us." They remained and became the gens of Tsĭnsakádni, People of the (Lone) Tree, who are closely related to To'dĭtsíni and cannot marry with the latter. 442. At Pĭnbĭtó', Deer Spring, some more of the gens of To'dĭtsíni halted, because, they said, their children were lame from walking and could travel no farther. Here they formed a new gens of Pinbĭto'dĭne', People of Deer Spring,194 who are also closely related to To'dĭtsíni. At this place they wanted their pet deer to leave them, but he would not go; he remained at the spring with the people who stayed there. What finally became of him is not known.195

443. The main body of the immigrants kept on their way, and, soon after passing Deer Spring, arrived at Hyíĕtyĭn, where the people of Thá'paha had their farms. Big Knee was still alive when they came; but he was very old and feeble, and was not respected and obeyed as in former days. When Thá'paha and Haslĭzni met, they traced some relationship between the two gentes: their names had much the same meaning; their headdresses and accoutrements were alike; so the Haslĭzni stopped with Thá'paha and became great friends with the latter. Yet to-day a member of one of these gentes may marry a member of the other.

444. The bear was the last of their five pets which the immigrants retained. When they were done their journey they said to him: "Our pet, you have served us well; but we are now safe among our friends and we need your services no more. If you wish you may leave us. There are others of your kind in Tsúskai (the Chusca Mountains). Go there and play with them." They turned him loose in Tsúskai, and bears have been numerous there ever since.

445. Of the people from the west, there was yet one gens—that to which Estsánatlehi had given the wand of turquoise—which had no name. This nameless people did not stay long on the banks of the San Juan before they wandered off far toward the south. One day two men of the party, while hunting, came to a place called Tsé'nahapĭl, where there were high overhanging rocks. Here they saw the fresh prints of unshod human feet. They followed these tracks but a short distance when they beheld a man watching them from a rocky pinnacle. As soon as he saw that he was observed, he crouched and disappeared. They ran quickly behind the rock on which they had seen him and again observed him, running as fast as he could. "Why do you fly from us?" they shouted. "We mean no harm to you." Hearing this he stopped till they came up