here? No; the Kō-lō-oo-wĭt-si (plumed serpent) is not here; he must
come," and two of the Kōk-kō (the Soot-īke) were dispatched for
him. This curious creature is the mythical plumed serpent whose home
is in a hot spring not distant from the village of Tkāp-quē-nā, and
at all times his voice is to be heard in the depths of this boiling
water.

In the days of the old, a young maiden, strolling along, saw a
beautiful little baby boy bathing in the waters of this spring; she
was so pleased with his beauty that she took him home and told her
mother that she had found a lovely little boy. The mother's heart told
her it was not a child really, and so she said to the daughter; but
the daughter insisted that she would keep the baby for her own. She
wrapped it carefully in cotton cloth and went to sleep with it in her
arms. In the morning, the mother, wondering at her daughter's absence,
sent a second daughter to call her. Upon entering the room where the
girl had gone to sleep she was found with a great serpent coiled round
and round her body. The parents were summoned, and they said, "This is
some god, my daughter; you must take him back to his waters," and the
maiden followed the serpent to the hot spring, sprinkling him all the
while with sacred meal. Upon reaching the spring the serpent
entered it, the maiden following, and she became the wife of the
Kō-lō-oo-wĭt-si.

The Kō-lō-oo-wĭt-si soon appeared with the two Soot-īke who had
been dispatched for him. They did not travel upon the earth, but
by the underground waters that pass from the spring to the spirit
lake. Upon the arrival of the Kō-lō-oo-wĭt-si, the Käk-lō issued
to this assemblage his commands, for he is the great father of the
Kōk-kō. Those who were to go to the North, West, South, East, to