NO. 4 NEW ORIGINAL BOSCANA HARRINGTON II 



hut a small quantity, after the shape and manner of a little plot of 

 ground ; this was the first childbirth. She again found herself preg- 

 nant, and in this second childbirth she brought forth rocks of all 

 kinds, sorts and sizes, and principally flint for the arrows. She 

 again found herself pregnant, and in this third childbirth, she brought 

 forth trees, and shrubs or chamize. In a word, after having given 

 birth to all the things which are seen on the earth, such as plants, 

 herbs, and the rest, she brought forth as her last childbirth one whom 

 they call Oiiiot. This was an animate being, but different from the 

 rational kind, and irrational. But the father and mother of the said 

 Ouiot were not people, but something else, and they do not know 

 how to explain or to give to understand how they imagined them. 



The above mentioned Oiot had children, and was the king or great 

 chief of all that family. This Oiot and his children constituted, 

 according to what I have understood, a species of animals distinct 

 from thoee of the present day. Asking them how Chief Oiot had 

 sons, or who was his wife and what she was called, they do not know 

 how to answer this question, but say that he had many children, 

 but how they do not know, nor whether all were males or whether 

 there were females, they do not know this either, but conjecture that 

 there were both, because w^omen give birth that way. The dis- 

 cussion of the above I leave to philosophers, for my intention is noth- 

 ing more than to make a succinct accoimt. 



