“What are we to do?” asked the first ten. “We have nothing to hunt with.”
Kele brought out bows and quivers with arrows, and gave them to each; gave five ropes to them also, ropes of grass fibre. “You are armed now,” said Kele; and he showed them where to set snares for deer.
They went far down to the foot of the mountain and set snares. The ten smooth brothers stood on the mountain top; the second ten, who were rough, drove the deer. “You must shout so that we can hear you all the time,” said the smooth brothers. Toward evening the smooth brothers saw deer in the snares. The smooth ten took the bodies, the best of the game; the rough ten the legs, ears, horns, all the poor parts. The smooth ten took the best meat to the house; the rough ten made a great uproar—they had little sense. The two sisters cooked roots and venison for all.
Next morning Kele made a big fire of manzanita wood. “Be up, my boys,” called he. “Go and swim.” That day the twenty stayed at home, and the sisters went for roots.
They lived this way a long time, the brothers hunting, the sisters digging roots and cooking, till at last the sisters wished to see other persons besides their brothers. One day when they went for roots they sat down on the mountain slope. “What are we to do?” said one sister; “we wish to see people, we see no one now but our brothers and father.”
That evening, when all had lain down, the elder sister went to Kele and sat near him. “My father,” said she, “I wish to know my name.”
“Your name is Klereu Lulimet,” said Kele; “your sister’s name is Pili Lulimet.”
She told her sister what their names were. Both liked the names, and were glad to have them. Every day the men sweated and swam, killed deer and snared them. The sisters dug lily roots and cooked them.
One time instead of digging roots they went high on the mountain side and sat there, sat looking westward. They could see very far, and things seemed right there before them, though away off near the edge of the great western water.
This was the first time that the sisters had a chance to see far. Till that day they had only a mountain slope or a forest opening in front of them; now they had the whole country to look at. Just after midday they saw a man going northward, going slowly.