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crossed the body of water, and they landed on the farther side. 

 Now at that time De'hae°'hiyawa"lvho°' became aware of this and 

 now he said, "I do not think, perhaps, that it woold result in good 

 that these beings should mingle with the game animals. So that, 

 perhaps, it will be good that I cause them all to recross the water." 

 And so then he drove them back and now verily all recrossed the 

 water. He too went thither, and when they came out of the water 

 he then drove as many of them as he saw going about there, some 

 crawling, and he drove all thither to the place where stood the moun- 

 tain in which was the cave in which were inclosed the game 

 animals which O'ha'a' had shut up. Into this place he drove all 

 their bodies. Now at that time he placed over it again the rock and 

 said, "Now I myself in turn shut up all those things whose bodies 

 O'ha'a' has made. So what shall be if he will be able to release the 

 bodies of all, and also wUl be, if he should not be satisfied when he 

 becomes aware that all these beings are shut up?" 



Then De'hae°'hiyawa"kho°' said, "Now I shall just recross the 

 water," and then he departed for home. 



As soon as he had returned to the place where stood his lodge he 

 then said, "I think perhaps that the way in which I have completed 

 the human being is not good. It just seems that in his going about 

 that he is lonesome. It seems that in going from place to place he 

 stands repeatedly. So, perhaps, it will result in good should I make 

 yet one other hmnan being so that there wiU be a pair." 



Now at that time he made another. As to that one, too, he made 

 her flesh from the earth. And when he had completed it he said, 

 "That, perhaps, will result in good that I make them alike. That 

 one, too, shall be like me in my bodily movements." Then at that 

 time he took a portion of his own life and he placed it in the body of 

 her whom he had just made; also he took a portion of his mmd and 

 placed it in the head of her whose body he had just finished; also he 

 took a portion of his blood and placed it in the flesh of her whose 

 body he had just finished. Then at that time he took a portion 

 of his power to look around and to talk and placed them both in her 

 head which was part of her body. Then he put his breath into her 

 body as a part of it. So now verily she came to life. De'hae"'- 

 hiyawa"kho'" said, "Listen, do thou stand erect on the earth here 

 present." Just as soon as she stood upright he then said, "I myself 

 have completed thy body. I also have completed all the things 

 which the earth here present holds and upon which thou dost stand 

 at present. So now I ordain it, and I give thee control of all things." 

 Now at that time he called to him the one whom he first formed. 



Wlien he returned there then De'hae'"hiyawa"kho°' said, "Now 

 I have completed it. Verily I myself have completed both your 

 bodies. So now I ordain for you two that ye two shall marry. 



