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niards, and exclaim, triumphantly, Inavlmiii, 

 inavimen, puen, lagwcimcn ! Pursue them , frietids, 

 pursue them, kill them! If the contrary hap- 

 pens, they are greatly afflicted, and call out in 

 consternation, Yavulumen, pucn, namuutunieu i 

 Courage friends, be firm ! 



Their ideas respecting the origin of creation 

 are so crude and ridiculous, that to relate them 

 could serve for little else than to show the weak- 

 ness of human reason when left to itself. They 

 have among them a tradition of a great deluge, 

 in which oiily a few persons were saved, who 

 took refuge upon a high mountain called Thcg- 

 iheg, the thundering, or the sparkling, which 

 had three points, and possessed the property of 

 moving upon the water. From hence it is in- 

 ferible that this deluge was in consequence of 

 some volcanic eruption., accompanied by terrible 

 earthquakes, and is probably very dift'erent from 

 that of Noah. Whenever a violent earthquake 

 occurs, these people fly for safety to those niouji- 

 tains which they fancy to be of a similar a}>- 

 pearance, and which of course, as they suppose, 

 must possess the same property of floating on the 

 water, assigning as a reason, that they are fearful 

 after an earthquake that the sea will again re- 

 turn and deluge the world. On these occasions, 

 each one takes a good supply of provisions, and 

 wooden plates to protect their heads from being 

 scorched, provided the ThegtJieg, when raised 



