He followed after, carrying a rude staff in his hand and a roll of woven skin blankets over his shoulder.

They had come across the mountains and were very thirsty, and they hurried to reach the Valley, where they knew there was water.

The woman was still far in advance when she reached the Lake Ah-wei'-yah [Mirror Lake], and she dipped up the water in her basket and drank long and deep.

She was so thirsty that she even drank up all the water in the lake and drained it dry before her husband arrived.

And because the lake was dry there came a terrible drouth in the Valley, and the soil was dried up and nothing grew.
[Illustration: _Photograph by Fiske_ A BURDEN BEARER.
The women are the principal burden bearers and all loads are carried in large baskets, supported by a band across the forehead.] And the husband was much displeased because the woman had drunk up all the water and left none for him, and he became so angry that he forgot the customs of his people and beat the woman with his staff.