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ploying all manner of means; they too will overcome them by magical 

 power." Then De'hae"'hiyawa"kho'" said, "Thou hast done wrong. 

 If it so be that thou desirest that that should cause the days of the 

 human beings to end, thou must at least begin with whomsoever it 

 may be that has thus done in making all those things which thou 

 hast designated." Now at that time O'ha'a' (Flint) spoke in reply 

 and said, "I have promised myself that, at all events, thou and I 

 must fight, if it so be that thou wilt become displeased with my way 

 of thinking." De'hae'"hiyawa"kho°' replied and said, "Verily, now, 

 thou hast turned the matter toward me by way of accusation, and 

 now also thou hast specified me. So, then, what manner of thing 

 shall thou and I do? What manner of thing shall thou and I use 

 when that which is in accordance with thy mind shall be set on 

 foot?" Then O'ha'a' (Flint) said, "That, too, thou wilt use, thy 

 magic power upon which thou dependest so much boastingly. I 

 personally too will use my magic power." Now at that time De'- 

 hae"'hiyawa."kho'" said, "Moreover, I will not deceive thy mind. 

 I will use my magic potence, which is Daylight, and, moreover, 

 it will be certain that the light will be fine when thou and I will 

 settle our matter. Next to that I will use this mountain as my 

 magic potence." Now O'ha'a' (Flint) said, "I will then use, verily, 

 the Night, and, verily, in that place where there is Darkness, 

 there thou and I will adjust our matter." And then he sprang 

 forward, holding in his hand the arrow tipped with flint, and he 

 said, "Now I have already Icilled one person, and I used my arrow, 

 verily, and still another I will kill." De'hae'"hiyawa"kho°' caught 

 the dart, and so then they two now pulled it and they struggled for 

 it. Now at that time there was heard a sound which was loud, and 

 now also it began to be cloudy. And now also the wind grew in 

 power. Now at that time De'hae°'hiyawa"kho°" now let go of the 

 arrow, and he now plucked up the near-by mountain and cast it 

 over the place where O'ha'a' (Flint) stood, and it covered him over; 

 in a short time now he again got out and then fled, and now 

 De'hae'"hiyawa"kho'" pursued him; they circled around the floating 

 island repeatedly. At that time De'hae"'hiyawa"kho''' continued 

 to take up the mountam repeatedly, which customarily he cast, 

 hitting O'ha'a' (Flint), and which customarily covered him over, but 

 in a short time he would again get out. Then it was that the moun- 

 tains severally became joined closed together. O'ha'ii' (Flint), as far 

 as he was concerned, threw back rocks. Customarily De'hac"'hiya- 

 wa"kho°' caught them and then, ne.xt in order, customarily threw 

 them back ; and so after a while the mountains became covered with 

 rocks; suddenly now the animals hid themselves, and now, also, 

 some of them fled away, and now too, O'ha'a' (Flint) attempted to 

 conceal himself in the different mountains repeatedly, but it was 



