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Now verily he could not find it. Nowhere did he find his person. 

 Now at that time verily he began to travel over his floating island ; 

 verih' he did not find iiis person in the whole island. Some time 

 afterwards he went home. 



As soon as he reached home again he said, "Oh, my dear grand- 

 mother, an astonishing thing that came to pass in what I saw and 

 that I could not find the game animals. And I traveled about during 

 a long time. I went back and forth over nearly the whole of the 

 island which floats here before I saw the game animals. Just as 

 soon as they became aware that I was coming they at once fled 

 away, and there near by plunged into the water. Then at that 

 time I saw there that there is another floating island whither then 

 they went, and they landed from the water on that side. Now at 

 that time I returned thence, for I desired to tell De'hae°'hiyawa"- 

 kho"' of the things that I had seen. I went toward the place where 

 his bark lodge stood. I sought for his person over the entire island. 

 I went back and forth over the whole of it; but nowhere does his 

 bark lodge still stand." 



Now the Old Woman spoke, saying, "Now verily thou and I can 

 do nothing as to what has happened." Now O'ha'a' spoke and said 

 "It must needs be, too, that I myself shall now begin to make things. 

 I myself will be able, it is known, too, so to do in all the things as 

 De'hae"'hiyawa"kho'" has made." 



So now he said, "In the first place, perhaps, I shall begin with the 

 game animals small in size." Now at this time he made butterflies. 

 He finished them. So then he said, "Now I have completed their 

 bodies, so now I will travel about on the earth present here." Then 

 at that time they flew. Just after they had flowm, just then a num- 

 ber of pigeons whose bodies De'hae"'hiyawa"kho°' had made flew 

 along there. At that time O'ha'a' said, "Those, verily, are the 

 things which my brother habitually calls pigeons; so I myself, too, 

 will make bodies like them." 



So now he began to form their bodies. When he completed them 

 he said, "Now I have finished your bodies, so now I will travel 

 about on the earth present here." He finished them before he became 

 aware that these apparently were covered with fur, and apparently 

 they possessed teeth. Now at that time they flew. 



Now agam O'ha'ii' said another thing, "Perhaps, in the first 

 place, I will make that by which it shall be lighted, just as it is that 

 there is standing beside the lodge of De'hae"'hiyawa"kho'" what he 

 calls Smiflower." Then at that time he made it. Just beside his 

 lodge is the place where he said, "Here shall grow the thing which I 

 have planted by which there shall be daylight, and it shall be 

 called Sunflower." 



Now at that time he again said another thing, "I will make that 

 which shall be called the larger fruit (apple.)" Then verily he made 

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