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many years in that land; and after a long time they went away and nothing more was 
heard of them. He [the governor] also said: That after the old man there came to that 
land a man called The Drinker and he grew angry with the people of that place and 
sent much water, so that the whole country was covered with water, and he went to a 
very high mountain range, which is seen from there and which is called The Mountains 
of the Foam (Sierra de la Espuma), and he took with him a little dog and a coyote. 
(This mountain range is called ‘‘of the foam”’ because at the end of it, which is cut off 
and steep like the corner of a bastion, there is seen high up near the top a white brow as 
of rock, which also continues along the range for a good distance, and the Indians say 
that this is the mark of the foam of the water, which rose to that height.) That The 
Drinker went up, and left the dog below that he might notify him when the water came 
so far, and when the water reached the brow of the Foam the dog notified The Drinker, 
because at that time the animals talked, and the latter carried him up. That after 
some days The Drinker Man sent the Rose-sucker (Chuparosas) and the Coyote te 
bring him mud; they brought some to him and of the mud he made men of different 
kinds, and some turned out good and others bad. That these men scattered over 
the land, upstream and downstream; after some time he sent some men of his to see 
if the other men upstream talked; these went and returned, saying that although 
they talked they had not understood what they said, and that The Drinker Man was 
very angry, because those men talked without his having given them leave. That 
next he sent other men downstream to see those who had gone that way and they 
returned, saying that they had received them well, that they spoke another tongue, 
but that they had understood them. Then The Drinker Man told them that those 
men downstream were the good men and that these were such as far as the Opa, with 
whom they are friendly; and that the others upstream were the bad men and that 
these were the Apache, who are their enemies. He [the governor] said also that at 
one time The Drinker Man was angry at the people and that he killed many and trans- 
formed them into saguaros [giant cacti], and that on this account there are so many 
saguaros in that country. (The saguaro is a tree having a green trunk, watery, rather 
high, and uniformly round, and straight from foot to top, with rows of large spines from 
above downward; it usually has two or three branches of the same character, which look 
like arms.) Furthermore he said: That at another time The Drinker was very angry 
with the men and that he caused the sun to come down to burn them, and that he was 
making an end of them; that the men begged him much not to burn them and that 
thereupon The Drinker said that he would no longer burn them; and then he told the 
sun to go up but not as much as before, and he told them that he left it lower in order 
to burn them by means of it if ever they made him angry again, and for this reason 
it is so hot in that country in summer. He [the governor] added that he knew other 
stories, that he could not tell them because the time was up and he agreed to tell them 
to us another day; but as we had laughed a little at his tales, which he related with 
a good deal of seriousness, we could not get him afterward to tell us anything more, 
saying that he did not know any more. This whole account or story I have reproduced 
in the dialect here given, because it is more adapted to the style in which the Indians 
express themselves. 
GROSSMAN’S NARRATIVE 
Regarding the story of the origin of Casa Grande, it may be well to 
incorporate here-the Pima myth regarding the ruin and the descrip- 
tion of the structure as given by Capt. F. E. Grossman in 1871:1 
The Pimas, however, claim to be the direct descendants of the chief S6/-hé above 
mentioned. The children of S6’-h6 inhabited the Gila River valley, and soon the 
1Tn Smithsonian Report for 1871, pp. 408-409, Washington, 1873. 
