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CHAPTER XVIII
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The man who brought the gods gold might go home with gifts so beautiful that there was never anything seen like them! Especially is there something that the gods call "bells" that ring and sound in your hand when you dance! Gold--do you know where to find it?
Another thing! They desire to find a god who dropped out of the sky a long time ago, and has now a people and a great, marvelous village.
Thinking he might be here, they have dived down to our land, for they dive in the sky as we dive in water! The name of the god they hunt is Grand Khan or Cublai Khan, and his village is Quinsai.

Have you heard of him?
They are very anxious to find him.

The chief god with white hair and wonderful clothes--It is what they call clothes; under it they are as you and me, only the color is different--the chief god will give many bells to any folk who can show him the way to Quinsai.

Gold and Quinsai where lives the god Grand Khan.
As might have been expected, this brought tidings.

"Cubanacan! Cubanacan!" Whatever that might mean, they said it with assurance, pointing inland.


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