When a third arrow, pointed outward, with two pebbles beside it, had been placed at one tip of the bow, he said;
"Thither lies the Land of the Rising Sun."
The fourth and last arrow he laid with stone head pointing outward, at the other tip of the bow. Then, having placed three pebbles beside it, he said;
"Thither lies the Land of the Setting Sun."
"The Great Mystery is kind," remarked Hawk Eye.
"He has bid me remember my stepfather's description of the Minnesota's course," answered Raven Wing.
"And now what do you propose to do?" asked Hawk Eye.
"We will make a trail across the prairie towards the rising sun straight as the flight of an arrow. Come; let us start," answered Raven Wing.
At once both boys set off at an easy lope. Ohitika bounded ahead, flushing a flock of ground sparrows which chattered loudly at the interruption to their grassy nest building. But to the clamor of their voices and whirring wings the dog failed to see a badger which was burrowing in the sod.
As the boys pressed on, larks and blue birds filled the air with song; prairie wolves skulked away to grove and swale, and rattlesnakes glided over moist places to rocky shelter.