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made the grizzly so strong that he feared 

 him himself, and would have to go up on 

 top of the mountain out of sight of the for- 

 est to sleep at night, lest the grizzly, who, 

 as will be seen, was much more strong and 

 cunning then than now, should assail him 

 in his sleep. Afterwards, the Great Spirit, 

 wishing to remain on earth and make the 

 sea and some more land, converted Mount 

 Shasta, by a great deal of labor, into a wig- 

 wam, and built a fire in the center of it 

 and made it a pleasant home. After that, 

 his family came down, and they all have 

 lived in the mountain ever since. They say 

 that before the white man came they could 

 see the fire ascending from the mountain 

 by night and the smoke by day, every time 

 they chose to look in that direction. They 

 say that one late and severe springtime, 

 many thousand snows ago, there was a 

 great storm about the summit of Mount 

 Shasta, and that the Great Spirit sent his 

 youngest and fairest daughter, of whom he 

 was very fond, up to the hole in the top, 



