I

     (Ten thousand years have passed, and it is
     the time of the early voyaging from Europe
     to the waters of the Pacific, when the
     deserted hillside is again revealed as the
     moon rises. The stream no longer flows
     from the spring. Since the grove is used
     only as a camp for the night when the
     Nishinam are on their seasonal migration
     there are no signs of previous camps.)
     (Enter from right, at end of day's march,
     women, old men, and Shaman, the
     women bending under their burdens of
     camp gear and dunnage)
     (Enter from left youths carrying fish-spears
     and large fish)
     (Appear, coming down the hillside, Red
     Cloud and the hunters, many carrying
     meat.)
     (The various repeated characters, despite
     differences of skin garmenting and decoration,
     resemble their prototypes of the prologue.)
     Red Cloud     Good hunting! Good hunting!

     Hunters     Good hunting! Good hunting!

     Youths     Good fishing! Good fishing!

     Women     Good berries! Good acorns!

     (The women and youths and hunters, as they
     reach the campsite, begin throwing down
     their burdens)
     Dew-Woman     (Discovering the dry spring.)     The water no longer flows!

     Shaman     (Stilling the excitement that is immediate
     on the discovery.)     The word of old time that has come down to
     us from all the Shamans who have gone before!
     The Sun Man has come back from the Sun.

     Dew-Woman     (Looking to Red Cloud.)     Let Red Cloud speak. Since the morning of
     the world has Red Cloud ever been reborn with
     the ancient wisdom to guide us.

     War Chief     Save in war. In war I command.

     (He picks out hunters by name.)     Deer Foot... Elk Man... Antelope. Run
     through the forest, climb the hill-tops, seek down
     the valleys, for aught you may find of this Sun Man.

     (At a wave of the War Chief's hand the
     three hunters depart in different directions.)
     Dew-Woman     Let Red Cloud speak his mind.

     Red Cloud     (Quietly)     Last night the earth shook and there was a
     roaring in the air. Often have I seen, when the
     earth shakes and there is a roaring, that springs
     in some places dry up, and that in other places
     where were no springs, springs burst forth.

     Shaman     There is a sign.
     The Shamans told it of old.
     The Sun Man will bear the thunder in his hand.

     People     There is a sign.
     The Sun Man will bear the thunder in his hand.

     Shaman     The roaring in the air was the thunder of the
     Sun Man's return. Now will he destroy the
     Nishinam. Such is the word.

     War Chief     Hoh! Hoh!

     (From right Deer Foot runs in.)
     Deer Foot     (Breathless.)     They come! He comes!

     War Chief     Who comes?

     Deer Foot     The Sun Men. The Sun Man. He is their
     chief. He marches before them. And he is
     white.

     People     There is a sign.
     The Sun Man is white.

     Red Cloud     Carries he the thunder in his hand?

     Deer Foot     (Puzzled)     He looks hungry.

     War Chief     Hoh! Hoh! The Sun Man is hungry. It
     will be easy to kill a hungry Sun Man.

     Red Cloud     It would be easy to be kind to a hungry Sun
     Man and give him food. We have much. The
     hunting has been good.

     War Chief     Better to kill the Sun Man.

     (He turns upon People, indicating most
     commands in gestures as he prepares the
     ambush, making women and boys conceal
     all the camp outfit and game, and
     disposing the armed hunters among the
     ferns and behind trees till all are hidden.)
     Elk Man and Antelope     (Running down hillside)     The Sun Man comes.

     (War Chief sends them to hiding places)
     War Chief     (Preparing himself to hide)     You have not hidden, O Red Cloud.

     Red Cloud     (Stepping into shadow of big tree where he
     remains inconspicuous though dimly
     visible)     I would see this Sun Man and talk with him.

     (The sound of singing is heard, and War
     Chief conceals himself)
     (Sun Man, with handful of followers, singing
     to ease the tedium of the march, enter
     from right. They are patently survivors
     of a wrecked exploring skip, making their
     way inland)
     Sun Men     We sailed three hundred strong
        For the far Barbaree;
     Our voyage has been most long
        For the far Barbaree;
           So—it's a long pull,
           Give a strong pull,
     For the far Barbaree.

     We sailed the oceans wide
        For the coast of Barbaree;
     And left our ship a sinking
        On the coast of Barbaree;
           So—it's a long pull,
           Give a strong pull,
        For the far Barbaree.

     Our ship went fast a-lee
        On the rocks of Barbaree;
     That's why we quit the sea
        On the rocks of Barbaree.
           So—it's a long pull,
           Give a strong pull,
        For the far Barbaree.

     We quit the bitter seas
        On the coast of Barbaree;
     To seek the savag-ees
        Of the far Barbaree.
           So—it's a long pull,
           Give a strong pull,
        For the far Barbaree.

     Our feet are lame and sore
        In the far Barbaree;
     From treading of the shore
        Of the far Barbaree.
           So—it's a long pull,
           Give a strong pull,
        For the far Barbaree.

     A weary brood are we
        In the far Barbaree;
     Sea cunies of the sea
        In the far Barbaree.
           So—it's a long pull,
           Give a strong pull,
        For the far Barbaree.

     Sun Man     (Who alone carries a musket, and who is
     evidently captain of the wrecked company)     No farther can we go this night. Mayhap
     to-morrow we may find the savages and food.

     (He glances about.)     This far world grows noble trees. We shall sleep
     as in a temple.

     First Sea Cuny     (Espying Red Cloud, and pointing.)     Look, Captain!

     Sun Man     (Making the universal peace-sign, arm
     raised and out, palm-outward.)     Who are you? Speak. We come in peace.
     We kindness