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on the ice hills near where Pikmiktalik now is, taking for his wife a 
she-wolf. By and by he had many children, which were always born 
in pairs—a boy and a girl. Hach pair spoke a tongue of their own, dif- 
fering from that of their parents and different from any spoken by their 
brothers and sisters. 
As soon as they were large enough each pair was sent out in a differ- 
ent direction from the others, and thus the family spread far and near 
from the ice hills, which now became snow-covered mountains. <As the 
snow melted it ran down the hillsides, scooping out ravines and river 
beds, and so making the earth with its streams. 
The twins peopled the earth with their children, and as each pair 
with their children spoke a language different from the others, the 
various tongues found on the earth were established and continue 
until this day. 
THE BRINGING OF THE LIGHT BY RAVEN 
(From Paimut, onthe lower Yukon) 
In the first days there was light from the sun and the moon as we 
now have it. Then the sun and the moon were taken away, aud people 
were left on the earth for a long time with no light but the shining of 
the stars. The shamans made their strongest charms to no purpose, 
for the darkness of night continued. 
In a village of the lower Yukon there lived an orphan boy who always 
sat upon the bench with the humble people over the entrance way 
in the kashim. The other people thought he was foolish, and he was 
despised and ill-treated by everyone. After the shamans had tried 
very hard to bring back the sun and the moon but failed, the boy began 
to mock them, saying, ‘‘ What fine shamans you must be, not to be able 
to bring back the light, when even I can do it.” 
At this the shamans became very angry and beat him and drove him 
out of the kashim. This poor orphan was like any other boy until he 
put on a black coat which he had, when he changed into a raven, pre- 
serving this form until he took off the coat again. 
When the shamans drove the boy out of the kashim, he went to the 
house of his aunt in the village and told her what he had said to them 
and how they had beaten him and driven him out of the kashim, Then 
he said he wished her to tell him where the sun and the moon had gone, 
for he wished to go after them. 
She denied that she knew where they were hidden, but the boy 
said, ‘Il am sure you know where they are, for look at what a finely 
sewed coat you wear, and you could not see to sew it in that way if 
you did not know where the light is.” After a long.time he prevailed 
upon his aunt, and she said to him, “ Well, if you wish to find the 
light you must take your snowshoes and go far to the south, to the 
place you will know when you get there.” 
