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When he returned to the place where stood their lodge he said, 

 "Listen, nn' grandmother, an astonishing thing came to pass. I 

 crossed the water; I went seeking for those game animals whose 

 bodies I completed. I saw them nowhere. Just only did I see new 

 human beings, one a male and one also a female. I asked them 

 whence they two had come. They two named mj' brother. He it 

 is, they said, who left them there. 



'So I asked mj' brother that I myself also should make a human 

 being. He consented to it now, and he said, 'Do thou make one. 

 Thou must do it carefully this time. Thou shalt copy exactly the 

 form of the body of the human being. ' " Then his grandmother said, 

 "That, perhaps, will result in good. Certainly, thou shalt do thus 

 as he has bidden thee, for verily he has the power. Not surely, 

 would he verily be pleased that thou shouldst just half do it. It 

 may be, as is known, at this time something has come to pass which 

 is the cause that now thou dost not find the bodies of those things 

 which thou thyself hast completed severally." 



At that time O'ha'ii' said, "So now I will begin it. For behold I 

 have verily only a short time in which to do it. Just to-morrow then 

 verily he will come and he, my brother, will come to examine it." 



At that time he went out and went to the shore of the water. 

 When he arrived at the water's edge he then said, "Of that, perhaps, 

 I myself will use to make a human being is this foam floating on the 

 water. So that it will be evident that they two, the human beings, 

 shall be different in the form and kind of their bodies." Now at that 

 time he saw where the water fell there floated various patches formed 

 of hills of foam. So now then he took up the foam and from that 

 he formed the body and he put forth great care. As soon as he 

 had finished it he then attempted to cause it to live. He was not 

 able that it should thus come to pass. Then he said, "Just very 

 soon now, verily, my brother will come here. Without fail I will beg 

 him to aid me in causing it to come to life, because now I have verily 

 done very much work to bring about peace and he has agreed to let 

 me make a human being." 



Now then again he said, "I will go to meet him. So when we two 

 meet I will tell him that I myself failed to cause the human being 

 which I formed to come to life. Without fail I will beg him then to 

 cause it to live; that he should do to it even as he has done to that 

 which he himself completed." So now he started. 



He had not gone very far when there he was surprised to see that 

 now his brother was coming toward him. When they met, O'ha'a' 

 then said, "Behold, I have come to meet thee; and the reason is that 

 I desire that thou shouldst aid me in causing to come to life the bodj' 

 which I have completed; for as to that verily I have completed the 

 body of a human being." 



