The speaker paused again and looked around as if challenging an answer.

He felt very sure of his point.
"We have worked, worked as hard as any one on the Tyuonyi, but our numbers have grown faster than our crops.

Go and look at the field of Shyuamo and you will see how many are the corn-plants, and how large the ears of corn, but the field is too small! We have not more land than the Turkey people, and not as much as the Water clan! When during last summer no rain fell, notwithstanding all our fasting, prayer, and sacrifice, when yamunyi dried up and kaname shrivelled, Tzitz hanutsh still had enough to eat, and its men grew fat!" This hint at the stout representative of the Water clan created great hilarity.

Her representative growled,-- "You are not lean either." Without noticing this interruption, Tyope proceeded,-- "Its women and its children are well! But we, at the lower end of the cliffs,"-- he extended his arm to the east,--"starve in order that your daughters and the little ones whom we have begotten to the other clans shall not perish.

We had no more than food enough to pray for, to fast for, in order that the Shiuana might not let our brethren be lost." Here the Koshare Naua, as well as the representative of the Panther clan, uttered an audible "[=A]-[=a];" and even the Shkuy Chayan nodded.