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would remain in his course. He told the Taos Indians that they were to remain forever in the same home and not scattered here and there like the other Indians. The Taos Indians left the lake in Mt. Blanca by groups or clan (daina) and all with their different names. But they all had to meet and build their pueblo at the place called the Canyon of the Red Willows at the foot of the Great Mountain (Mahwalu Vianda). And they all went out and finally met at the pueblo where they now live."

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#53 --- The following story, concerning a cavern in a mountain aside Stuart Lake, in central British Columbia, Canada., can be found on page 24 of "The Journal of American Folk-Lore" Vo1.47. This story was collected in the winter of 1924-25 at Stony Creek, a Carrier Indian settlement near the transcontinental railway line running through northern British Columbia to Prince Rupert:

    "...Long ago the Indians used to see many dwarfs in the mountains at the head of Francois Lake, around Stuart lake, up the Nechako river and even under the water of Francois Lake. Though they seemed to be only boys about a foot tall, they were as strong as men. The Indians called them Atnau...

    "...A Stuart Lake Indian who was hunting on the ice saw ahead of hin a dwarf carrying on his back a huge grizzly bear. The Indian tried to pull the animal from him, but the dwarf walked steadily on as if he felt nothing. At last, he turned and said, 'You can't take the grizzly from me, so you had better come home with me.'  They entered a cavern in a mountain from which a creek flows into Stuart Lake, and came to a great country like this earth, thickly inhabited by dwarfs. The Indian married two dwarf women and lived in this country for several years, but at last he became homesick and his father-in-law consented to let him take his wives to his own home. The three of them