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raft and were used as food for all the people, 

 and also for those animals, birds, and insects 

 that had obeyed the medicine man's command. 



"When the forty days had expired the rain 

 stopped, the waters gradually ran away, and 

 the animals which had lived in harmony with 

 each other on the great mountain came down 

 and departed to their various homes and feed- 

 ing grounds." 



The woman who gave us this version of a 

 widely disseminated tradition of her race, also 

 stated that when she was eight years old, her 

 father made a pilgrimage to Jubilee Moun- 

 tain, taking her with him. The great raft was 

 then resting upon the crest, but covered over 

 with thick ice, and very deep snow. It is said 

 that traditions of the flood are to be found in 

 the annals of many of the ancient Eastern 

 countries, but this is the first that I have ever 

 heard of an Indian tradition of the flood and 

 it is just possible therefore that this one is of 

 Japanese origin. 



