60 TRANSACTIONS OP THE 



NINETEENTH REGULAR MEETING. 



March 2, 1880. 



[Annual Address of the President.] 



TWENTIETH REGULAR MEETING. 



March 16, 1880. 



The Four Creations of Mankind — A Tualati Myth. 

 By A. S. GATSCHET. 



In olden times people swarmed in the region of the 

 Columbia and Willamette rivers. No sickness prevailed 

 and everybody grew up to old age. Five men then started 

 out on a hunting expedition, taking with them a dog. 

 They camped out five nights, and on the evening of the 

 fifth day, when the dog came home, a little girl asked : 

 "How much game has been killed by your party?" The 

 dog made no reply. The little girl asked the same question 

 five times, when the dog replied : " Five were killed." After 

 this the world turned upon itself, all human beings became 

 stars, and there was nobody left on earth save the girl, whom 

 the dog took to himself for a wife. She first bore to him a 

 dog and a babe, and becoming pregnant a second time was 

 again delivered of a babe and a dog. From these children 

 there came other children, and the country again swarmed 

 with people. Then one man said to another: "A new people 

 will soon come in large numbers ; we had better retire from 

 here, or be changed into some other form, for in a short 

 space of time there will be none of us left on earth." The 

 man who said this was a chief, and he traveled ail over the 

 land and told eveiybody the same thing. When he returned 

 to his home all the people had been transformed into the 

 pebbles which still glitter from the bottoms of the rivers. 



