He lay down where there were no habitations. They asked him in vain to come inside the building, for soon the person with a skull that kills would come.
Saying he would remain there, he refused, and lay down. In the night, he heard the one with a skull that kills coming. He took up a stone and hit him with it as he walked by and killed him. He also killed the bees that had caused the eagles to die out by stinging them. He took the bees from their nests and killed them all. He killed, too, the wasps that lived in rocks, and all the yellow jackets. The tumble weeds, also, were killing the eagles by rolling on them. He beat these weeds with a stick and destroyed them.
He inquired of an old eagle woman where others were living. She told him of wood-rats which have many houses and bring back much material when they go abroad. He went where cactus was standing and when night came, lay down to sleep. He heard the sound of people shouting toward the east. They were saying, “Down here.” They were chasing an insect called agetdlic. He killed it.
The stars were people and were coming to get arrows. Those who were running after agetdlic jumped over his body one by one as they reached it. The last one who was running succeeded in jumping over the body but fell back on it.
They removed the skin, cut up meat, tied it up, and put it on the man's back for him to carry. They warned him against looking back. He started away with it and carried it until he came to the top of a hill. Wondering why he had been told not to look back, he did so and fell over backward. He went to the camp of the eagles and told them his load was on the hill. They went to get the load and brought it to the camp. There was a big pile of the meat which they brought back. “This was what he meant,” they said. It was sunset by the time they brought the meat back.
“The man is a good helper,” they said. “He has killed for us all those who used to kill us.” The man then said he was going home, and the eagle people told him he might do so. They told him, though, that if he was afraid four times to fly down, that he could not go down. He was afraid the fourth time and came back saying that he would start home again on the fourth day.
They went with him to the place where the trail came up. He was afraid three times, but when it was to be the fourth time he flew down.
“Where the white mirage is located in the center of the sky he rested; where the yellow house stands, resting in its shadow he sat down.
“The blue house, standing at the center of the sky; resting in the shade he sat down again.
“The black house, standing at the center of the sky; resting in its shade he sat down again.”