The Duck then fled away toward the mountain from which issued the garrulous talking, and from ther beyond, spying water, to the lake in its hollow. There she swam to and fro, this way and that, up and down, loudly quacking and calling. See! the lights of the Kíwitsin of the Kä'kä began to gleam in the waters, and as she gazed she beheld, rising from them, snout foremost, like.one of her own kind, the Sálamopia of the north, whom the gods of the Kâ'kâ, the noble and surpassing Páutiwa and the ancient K'yáu'hliwa, had dispatched to bid the Duck dive down and lay before them whatsoever message she might bear. The Duck followed down, down, into the great assembly halls. There she told of the far journeys she had made, of her finding and leading the K'yäk'lu, and how now K'yäk'lu sat blind of eyes, maimed and hearing nothing of her calling in the plain beyond the mountains.





©1996, Richard Hooker

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