[“We have never seen this tobacco here,” said the narrator of the story. “It was turned to rock long ago; this was done far in the East, way off where the sun rises. The rock is there now, and it is called Talpapa—white tobacco rock. This is Mapchemaina tobacco.” The first tobacco Jupka used was moiyu, the Yana tobacco that we have in our time.]
“If Hehku dreams, she will beat me when she wakes, if she is wise; but I will not let her dream,” said Jupka. He blew his breath on her face; she could not dream after that.
Hehku used to dream bad things which came to pass later on. She used to dream of killing people, but after Jupka blew his breath on her face she could not dream in his sweat-house. Next day, when she woke, she was very angry at Jupka. She stood up, walked out of the sweat-house, went to the east; went quickly, went to that same rocky mountain where Tsanunewa had set his mousetraps.
“Make a good fire and sweat,” said Jupka to the Mapchemaina.
All sweated and bathed in the river, and that day Hehku became a Putokya, a skull person. She stayed one night at the rocky mountain; dreamed of gambling with Jupka and all the people at Jigulmatu.
Hehku had a sister, Miniau Marimi. She took this sister as a companion. Both started, went together, and never stopped till they reached Oaimatu, a great hollow mountain northeast of Jigulmatu. Hehku brought a pipe with her, and made tobacco of dried brains. “My smoke will be stronger than Jupka’s,” thought Hehku. She spent one night in the hollow mountain, and dreamed again of gambling in Jupka’s sweat-house. She rose early, and was in Jigulmatu at daylight. She stood with Miniau Marimi on the roof of the sweat-house, and sang to herself,—
“I shall win, I shall win, I shall win surely.”
“Jupka, I wish to go into your sweat-house,” said she. “When I go in, you will like me, you will like to see me. I am nice to look at.”
She changed; made herself very beautiful then. No one could know her; no one could know that that woman was the Hehku who had hunted Tsanunewa.
At sunrise all the people in Jupka’s sweat-house heard steps above, heard walking on the sweat-house. The two women were there. Hehku came to the roof-door and said,—