The Kúja sisters said: “We will fix your eyes so no matter how dark it is, you will see the trail and get home. We will open our eyes wide, and give you some of our light.” The youngest sister opened her eyes wide and looked into Galaíwa’s eyes. Right away a little black spot came inside each of the old woman’s eyes. Then everywhere it seemed bright and light to her; she traveled fast; she didn’t have to look for the trail. Since then all of her kin can see as well at night as in the daytime.
Early the next morning the Kúja sisters went to hunt for deer. The youngest sister started the fires around a mountain, then they sat down on flat rocks and waited for Yahyáhaäs to come. While they were sitting there, they asked one another: “Which of us will try first?” The eldest sister said: “I will.” The youngest sister said: “You must fix your mind on what you are going to do, then think of nothing else.” She got red all over; her arms and legs and eyes were as red as fire.
They saw Yahyáhaäs coming. He started in the southwest, went toward the north, then turned west, and came to their mountain. They watched him all the time. When he saw them, he squatted down and began to creep toward them. He crept behind every tree and stone and every blade of grass. Every step he took he thrust his cane down under the earth.
Each sister had a bunch of woodpecker’s feathers in a hole in her nose. As Yahyáhaäs came along, the eldest sister took a feather out of her nose and stuck it under the ground. It came up a streak of fire in Yahyáhaäs’ cane; he was so scared he almost lost his mind. When he got near, she took out a second feather, put it under the ground, and it also came [[163]]out a streak of fire in Yahyáhaäs’ cane. That time he was so scared that he dropped his cane and called out: “What are you doing? This is my cane!”
“What do you think now?” asked the eldest sister. “You boasted that we had no power, that you could take our bows and arrows away from us.”
“You must wrestle with me,” said Yahyáhaäs. “That is the way I find out how strong people are.”
“You must make a fire first,” said the sisters.
Yahyáhaäs took his fire-drill out of his quiver and tried to start a fire.
The sisters laughed, and said: “You must make it with your own power, not with a drill; anybody can use a drill.”
“How can I do it?” asked Yahyáhaäs.