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arrived here? I can not find their bodies. Th^;y do not go about 

 from place to place whence I departed, so I come looking for their 

 bodies. I thought, it may be, that at this time they have come 

 hither to this place." 



Then De'hae°'hiyawa"kho°' said, "Thou shouldst just only seek 

 for their bodies. Thou shouldst travel about over the entire island. 

 It must needs be, perhaps, that thou shouldst recognize those whose 

 bodies thou didst form, if it so be that they are going about here on 

 this island." 



Now at that time O'ha'a' started and he traveled about there. 

 He saw very many game animals of various Idnds, which were 

 severally very numerous. Verily he did not see any whose bodies 

 he himself had made. Suddenly now he saw the two bodies of the 

 two human beings, so now he said, "So what manner of thing are 

 ye two doing going about here?" 



They two said, "Only that he who completed our two bodies 

 has verily left us here." Then O'ha'a' was astonished and he care- 

 fully considered them in the manner in which they two were alive. 

 At that time then he went aside. When he again reached the place 

 where De'hae'"hiyawa"kho°' abode he said, "I do not find con- 

 tinually the game animals whose bodies I formed. I have seen 

 nothing regarding the bodies which I came to seek. The only things 

 I saw were the two bodies of the two human beings. One was a 

 male and the other a female. I asked the two whence they two had 

 come and they two said, 'He who completed our two bodies left us 

 here.' So I thought I at this time should also make something which 

 should be like the state of being of the lives of the two whom I saw. 

 Verily, perhaps, thou hast nothing mentally against my making the 

 like?" Now at that time De'hae'"hiyawa"kho"" said, "So do thou 

 make one, if thou wilt use great care at this time, and that thou wilt 

 exactly copy the form of the body of the human being. If it so be 

 that thou dost exactly copy it, then verily it will be possible that 

 human beings shall inhabit the place where away thy island floats. 



"So if it be so that they shall inhabit there, then just through the 

 middle our Elder Brother (the orb of daylight) shall habitually pass." 



Now at that time the mind of O'ha'a' was greatly pleased. And 

 so then he said, "So let it come to pass in this manner to-morrow 

 that thou shouldst go thither. Thou shouldst go to e.xamine it and 

 thou shouldst aid me, and that thou and I should seek for the bodies 

 of the animals which I have made, whence they have gone." Then 

 De'hae"'hiyawa"kho°' said, "That too shall come to pass." Then 

 O'ha'a' said, "Now also I will return home. Just as soon as I return 

 home then at once I will set to work so that the first thing which 

 thou wilt see when thou arrivest there will be the human being which 

 I will have completed." 



