will wake here and be always happy. And we are here to intercede with
the Sun, our father, that he may give to our people rain, and the
fruits of the earth, and all that is good for them." The āh-shi-wi
then journeyed on, led by āh-ai-ū-ta and Mā-ā-sē-we, to the
present site of Zuñi. Many, however, lingered at a spring some
fifteen miles west of Zuñi, and there established the village
Tkāp-quē-nā (Hot Spring).

The Kō-yē-mē-shi and Kō-mō-kĕt-si passed down through the
interior of the mountain into the depths of the lake, the waters of
everlasting happiness. In the passageway are four chambers, where
the couple tarried on their way and where at the present time the two
priests of the Kōk-kō rest in their journey to the sacred waters. So
credulous are the people that the priests delude them into the belief
that they actually pass through the mountain to the lake.

Having heard of the wonderful cave in this mountain, our little party
visited the place, prepared to explore it. Mr. Stevenson and Mr.
H.L. Turner entered the fissure in the rock and squeezed through the
crevice for sixteen or eighteen feet to where the rock was so solid
that they both determined no human creature could penetrate farther.
They examined the place most carefully by means of an artificial
light. Through a small aperture stones could be thrown to a depth from
which no sound returned, but excepting this solitary opening all was
solid, immovable rock. In this cave many plume sticks were gathered.
Near the opening of the cave, or fissure, is a shrine to the Kōk-kō,
which must be very old, and over and around it are hundreds of the
plume sticks and turquoise and shell beads.

I would mention here a little incident illustrative of the