28 MYTHOLOGY OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. 
north are called by the Algonkian philosophers ‘‘the friends of Shinga- 
pis.” 
In contrast to this explanation of the flight of birds may be placed 
the explanation of the modern evolutionist, who says that the birds 
migrate in quest of abundance of food and a genial climate, guided by 
an instinct of migration, which is an accumulation of inherited memories. 
Diversity of languages—The Kaibiébit philosopher accounts for the 
diversity of languages in this manner: St-tcom’/-pa Ma-sé-tts, the grand- 
mother goddess of the sea, brought up mankind from beneath the waves 
in a sack, which she delivered to the Cin-ai-dw brothers, the great wolf- 
gods of his mythology, and told them to carry it from the shores of the 
sea to the Kaibab Plateau, and then to open it; but they were by no 
means to open the package ere their arrival, lest some great disaster 
should befall. The curiosity of the younger Cin-ai-dv overcame him, 
and he untied the sack, and the people swarmed out; but the elder Cin- 
ai-tiv, the wiser god, ran back and closed the sack while yet not all 
the people had escaped, and they carried the sack, with its remaining 
contents, to the plateau, and there opened it. Those that remained in 
the sack found a beautiful land—a great plateau covered with mighty 
forests, through which elk, deer, and antelope roamed in abundance, 
and many mountain-sheep were found on the bordering crags; piv, the 
nuts of the edible pine, they found on the foot-hills, and us, the fruit of 
the yucca, in sunny glades; and néint, the meschal crowns, for their feasts ; 
and tew-ar, the cactus-apple, from which to make their wine; reeds 
erew about the lakes for their arrow-shafts ; the rocks were full of flints 
for their barbs and knives, and away down in the canon they found a 
pipe-stone quarry, and on the hills they found dr. a-dim-piv, their tobacco. 
O, it was a beautiful land that was given to these, the favorites of the 
gods! The decendents of these people are the present Kaibabits of 
northern Arizona. Those who escaped by the way, through the wicked 
curiosity of the younger Cin-ai-iiv, scattered over the country and 
became Navajos, Mokis, Sioux, Comanches, Spaniards, Americans—poor, 
sorry fragments of people without the original language of the gods, and 
only able to talk in imperfect jargons. 
The Hebrew philosopher tells us that on the plains of Shinar the peo- 
ple of the world were gathered to build a city and erect a tower, the sum- 
mit of which should reach above the waves of any flood Jehovah might 
send. But their tongues were confused as a punishment for their impiety. 
The philosopher of science tells us that mankind was widely scattered 
over the earth anterior to the development of articulate speech, that the 
languages of which we are cognizant sprang from innumerable centers 
as each little tribe developed its own language, and that in the study of 
any language an orderly succession of events may be discovered in 
its evolution from a few simple holophrastic locutions to a complex lan- 
guage with a multiplicity of words and an elaborate grammatic structure, 
by the differentiation of the parts of speech and the integration of the 
sentence. 
