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it dived and was gone longer than the rest. As soon as it dived the 

 man began to watch the place where it had disappeared and watched 

 night after night and day after day, until he noticed that the spot which 

 he was watching so anxiously moved a very little, very slowly. Then 

 little waves moved till the water appeared to boil, and gradually, as 

 the turtle came nearer the surface, more bubbles appeared. The man 

 looked at this one spot, watching it very closely, looking no other way. 

 but only at it. At last the turtle slowly appeared out of the water, very 

 slowly. First only the nose, the very tip of the nose, peeped out. 

 Th^n he saw its whole head, and the turtle was looking him in the 

 eyes. Then it floated on the water and said to the man : * Now from 

 the four sides of my body take the earth from me." Then the man 

 reached down and took mud from under its four legs, a handful of 

 earth. Then he said : "Other people will inhabit the edge of the 

 earth, but Indians will live in the middle." He took the earth and 

 spread it out on the pipe to dry. When it was perfectly dry and fine he 

 took a very little between two fingers and blew the fine dust in four 

 directions. The fifth time he took all the earth and spread it out, 

 saying, "As far as the eye can reach," and threw it. "There will be 

 rivers on this earth, and beyond where the eye can reach will be the 

 great water." ^ So he said. Then it appeared as he had commanded. 

 The dry land was in the shape of a turtle and beyond it was the great 

 water, and wherever, as he threw it, the earth did not fall down, there 

 were rivers and lakes. Then since the earth was still soft and muddy, 

 he took some of it and began to work, saying : "There will be four 

 people, two men and two women." Then he made of the earth first a 

 person in the shape of a man. Then he made the figure of a woman, 

 shaped as if clothed in a dress, all of earth. Then he made a white 

 man with a hat on, also of earth ; and then a white woman with long 

 dress and small body. 



Duas figuras longas ex argilla finxit, et porro duas triquetras et 

 cavas ; quas hominibus nuper creatis dedit. Qui neque quo modo eis in- 

 terdiu aut noctu uterentur neque ubi ponerent intellegebant. Ille autem 

 dixit : "Vir vultu pallido ubi ponantur decernat." Hie igitur suam argil- 

 lam in fronte posuit ; sed ille dixit "Hie non erat ei locus." Cum vero 

 super cervices posuisset, ille iterum : "Hie non erat ei locus." Postremo 

 inferiore ventris parte posuit ; tum ille dixit ' Em, hie erit." Deinde 

 vir vultu pallido argillam alteram in uxoris fronte posuit, sed ille dixit : 

 "Hie non erat ei locus." Cum vero super cervices posuisset, ille iterum : 

 "Hie non erat ei locus." Postremo inferiore ventris parte posuit. 



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