_(Red Cloud examines knife, understands immediately its virtue, cuts easily a strip of skin from his skin garment, and is overcome with the wonder of the knife.)_ {War Chief} _(Exhibiting a long bow.)_ I am the War Chief. No man, save me, has strength to bend this bow. I can slay farther than any man. _(A huge bear has come out among the bushes far up the hillside)_ {Sun Man} I, too, am War Chief over men, and I can slay farther than you. {War Chief} Hoh! Hoh! {Sun Man} _(Pointing to bear)_ Can you slay that with your strong bow? {War Chief} _(Dubiously)_ It is a far shot. Too far. No man can slay a great bear so far. _(Sun Man, shaking off from his arms the hands of Deer Foot and Elk Man, aims musket and fires. The bear falls, and the Nishinam betray astonishment and awe)_ _(At a quick signal from War Chief, Sun Man is again seized. War Chief takes away musket and examines it.)_ {Shaman} There is a sign. {People} There is a sign. He carries the thunder in his hand. He slays with the thunder in his hand. He is the enemy of the Nishinam. He will destroy the Nishinam. {Shaman} There is a sign. {People} There is a sign. In the day the Sun Man comes, The waters from the spring will no longer flow, And in that day will he destroy the Nishinam. {War Chief} _(Exhibiting musket.)_ Hoh! Hoh! I have taken the Sun Man's thunder. {Shaman} Now shall the Sun Man die that the Nishinam may live. {Red Cloud} He is our brother. He, too, is an acorn- planter. He has spoken. {Shaman} He is the Sun Man, and he is our eternal enemy. He shall die. {War Chief} In war I command. _(To Hunters.)_ Tie their feet with stout thongs that they may not run. And then make ready with bow and arrow to do the deed. _(Hunters obey, urging and thrusting the Sea Cunies into a compact group behind the Sun Man.)_ {Red Cloud} Shaman I am not. I know not the secret things. I say the things I know. When you plant kindness you harvest kindness. When you plant blood you harvest blood. He who plants one acorn makes way for life. He who slays one man slays the planter of a thousand acorns. {Shaman} Shaman I am. I see the dark future. I see the Sun Man's death, The journey he must take Through thick and endless forest Where lost souls wander howling A thousand moons of moons. {People} Through thick and endless forest Where lost souls wander howling A thousand moons of moons. _(War Chief arranges Hunters with their bows and arrows for the killing.)_ {Sun Man} _(To Red Cloud.)_ You will slay us?