Five Blaiwas brothers started off to hunt for deer. When they got to the top of the first high mountain, they took out their fire-drill to make a fire. As they turned the drill they talked to the mountains, to the trees, to the rocks and the bushes, and asked for good luck, but they forgot to ask the drill to keep Yahyáhaäs away. They made a fire, cooked their meat, and then got ready to hunt. When they were leaving the camp, they hung their dry meat and their seeds on a tree where they could get them when they came back in the evening.
After they had gone some distance, one of the brothers said: “That is the place where Yahyáhaäs comes. He starts from the east; when he sees any one he walks slowly, but he can go around and come up in front of a person. He can disappear like a flash. Sometimes his face is painted red, and he carries a red cane with red feathers on the end of it. Maybe he will come while we are gone and will eat our meat and seeds.”
The men were sorry that they had forgotten to tell the drill to keep Yahyáhaäs away.
Just then one of them looked east, and said: “There he is; he is coming now!”
The men were scared; they didn’t dare to run away, so they sat down and waited. When Yahyáhaäs came to them, he said:
“Well, well, I thought I would never see people again, but I see them now. I am glad you are here. Why don’t you start a fire?” [[154]]
“We forgot our drill.”
“I thought people never forgot their drills. What are you here for?”
“We came to hunt for deer and rabbits.”
“I have looked around all the morning,” said Yahyáhaäs; “I have been everywhere, but I haven’t seen a deer track.”