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In the latter they find a veritable and connecting link, that minor devil 
being nothing less than a grizzly. 
Omaha (Uma?) is ever invisible and ever bent on bringing evil, sick- 
ness, and misfortune on them. 
Makalay is shaped and moves like a huge kangaroo, has a long horn 
like the unicorn, moves with the swiftness of the wind, has caused the 
death of many Indians, is sometimes seen by mortals, but usually destroys 
the one who sees him. 
The third in order is a huge bird that sits on the mountain peak and 
broods in silence over his thoughts until hungry, when he will swoop down 
over the ocean and snatch up a large whale and carry it to his mountain 
_throne for a single meal. 
Wanuswegock is a comely giant of immense proportions. This is a 
myth of temptation, beauty, fear at first, then curiosity, then a growing 
interest, then passion, followed by destruction in the end. 
In connection with the story and curse of Wappeckquenow, the Indians 
relate an incident which occurred when the miners first went over to the 
Trinity River. The curse upon Wappeckquenow at the time of his expul- 
sion for disobedience, was that neither he nor his descendants should ever 
return to the happy lands which they had forfeited. On the first appearance 
of miners, with their long beards, and without women, they excited of 
course great interest among the Indians, and much speculation about, their 
origin, their fortunes and objects, and their destination. The prevailing 
opinion was that they were of a fugitive tribe driven away from their native 
seats, and their women taken away from them; and this opinion was con- 
firmed by the fact that they had no women with them and possessed long 
beards—a badge of widowhood among the Indians. Finally white women 
followed the miners; the erection of dwellings, the opening of mines, a 
manifest readiness to fight which did not comport with timid fugitives, and 
other evidences of permanent occupation caused further speculations, until 
finally an old seer of Hoopah Valley solved the question by announcing 
that there was something wrong with the curse-prophecy, and that the 
descendants of Wappeckquenow had come to reclaim their inheritance. 
