The Tede Wiu brothers were the first to come from the south. Next came the Tidok people. They came in crowds, in thousands, and every one had a feather net on his head. They began to come in the morning, and kept coming all day, all night, on the morrow, and second night, without stopping. They came without stopping for twelve days and nights, they came till there was no room for them anywhere around. More Tidoks remained at home than came, and more Tidoks came than all other people put together.
“You people,” said Sehinom Chabatu, when all had come, “I did not cause this war and fighting. I did not begin. The war was made by the Tede Wiu brothers and Norbis.”
“Now, my brothers,” said Sehinom Chabatu to the Tede Wiu brothers, “people far off talk of me; but you caused the trouble. You began it, and you must do your best to help me. We must leave here to-morrow morning.”
They started next morning early. Sehinom Chabatu gave orders to travel in parties. They moved toward the southeast. The last party of the first day left in the evening. When night came the van of the army camped and the rear marched all night.
When Sutunut’s forces came northward from the edge of the sky in the south to attack Sehinom’s people, they made a trail coming and going. Now, Sehinom’s army followed this trail. They travelled the second day till they reached a camping-place of the returning southern army. There they spent the night. At noon of the third day they sent Kaisus and Bulibok ahead to look for the enemy. They went to the south. On the following morning they came back and said,—
“We found a cañon where they camped; you can camp there.”
The army moved on. The two Kawas sisters had food to give the whole army; the two baskets were never empty, and all had enough.
They stayed three days in the cañon, and the Tidok people never stopped coming.
“We have far to go; you must hurry,” said Sehinom next day; and the Tidok forces began to travel faster. Sehinom sent forward Hus as a scout. Before daybreak all rose and travelled till evening. Hus came back and said,—
“I have been very far down. I found another place where they camped. I went farther south then, till I saw fire and smoke far away. We can rest to-night in their camping-place.”