They found Pitoíois crying; she said: “It’s useless for you to travel around; there are no women, except far away in the north.” The elder brother went to the top of a mountain and cried all day. His sister was sorry for him; she said: “There are people in the north. Maybe you will find a wife there.” “I will go north,” said he, “and my brother will go with me.” His medicine was the feather of a white eagle. He put a feather on the top of his little nephew’s head, twisted his hair around it, and said: “If this feather comes off while we are gone, you will know that we shall never come back.” “You must watch for Wus,” said the brother-in-law. “He is mad at us and will kill you if he can.” Before they got to the first mountain, the feather fell out of the baby’s hair and flew away on the wind. Pitoíois screamed and said to her husband: “Hurry and overtake our brothers and tell them that as soon as they were out of sight their medicine feather fell out of the baby’s hair.” He went very fast, but the brothers were over five mountains. He couldn’t overtake them, so he turned back. The brothers came to a brook running through a wide meadow; there were trees on each side of the brook. They sat down under a tree and began to cry. The younger brother said: “I feel lonesome, as though I were going to die.” “I feel so, too,” said the elder brother. “Let us travel fast; maybe we can get there to-day.” They started, but hadn’t gone far when they saw Wus coming toward them. The younger brother screamed, and said: “I think this is the person you have been hunting for.” When Wus met them, he asked: “Where are you going?” “We are just traveling around.” “You are like me; I have no home, I travel all the time. Who are you?” “We can’t tell you who we are, but we are people.” “Whose brothers are you?” “We are brothers to nobody.” “I know whose brothers you are,” said Wus. “Pitoíois is your sister; she hates me as if I had no life in me, and I hate her. I know your brother-in-law, the great arrow man.” “Where are there people?” asked the elder brother. “Near here. Will your brother-in-law come behind you?” “We don’t know,” said the younger brother. Wus was mad. “You will no longer be living people,” said he. “You will be birds and wander around nights.” Wus made night come quickly. The brothers got separated and lost in the darkness. They called to each other, but they couldn’t get together, and to this day they wander around alone. ILYÚYU AND KÛLTA’S SISTERS CHARACTERS Kûlta Otter Ilyúyu Kûlta’s wife had one grown-up brother, and a number of little brothers and sisters. Her grown-up brother had a pet wolf,—same as people have pet dogs now.—Its name was Ilyúyu Watcagû, and the young man was called by the same name.