64 THE YUROK. 
The Supreme Being of the Yurok mythology is called Gard; he created 
all things, and gave them their language, and now lives in the mountains. 
Any one who will for the space of ten or fifteen days eat only acorn-soup 
and think only of him, will have good fortune and get rich, and when he 
goes out hunting will find a white deer—the highest earthly object of desire 
to the Yurok. 
