THE GREAT GRIZZLY BEAR. 97 



They, as in the Biblical account of the 

 creation of all things, claim to have found 

 the woods, wild beasts, birds and all things 

 waiting for them, as did Adam and Eve. 



The Indians say the Great Spirit made 

 this mountain first of all. Can you not see 

 how it is? they say. He first pushed down 

 snow and ice from the skies through a hole 

 which he made in the blue heavens by turn- 

 ing a stone round and round, till he made 

 this great mountain; then he stepped out 

 of the clouds onto the mountain-top, and 

 descended and planted the trees all around 

 by putting his finger on the ground. The 

 sun melted the snow, and the water ran 

 down and nurtured the trees and made the 

 rivers. After that he made the fish for the 

 rivers out of the small end of his staff. He 

 made the birds by blowing some leaves, 

 which he took up from the ground, among 

 the trees. After that he made the beasts 

 out of the remainder of his stick, but made 

 the grizzly bear out of the big end, and 

 made him master over all the others. He 



