ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 61 



Of old there was no water on the earth ; men sucked the 

 moisture from wooden sticks, and snapped their tongues for 

 water. Then a third people settled on the earth and became 

 numerous. Two women stole an infant girl and kept her 

 secretly for years. She grew up to be a maiden and went 

 out to dig kamas. A flint-boy found her on the kamas- 

 fields and brought her back to her mother. The two women 

 who had stolen her became angry thereat and danced to 

 make it rain. It rained for twenty days, and a flood covered 

 all the mountain-tops. Everybody perished except the girl, 

 and the flint-boy who had grown up to be a flint man. He 

 hid her in his armpit, and upon this the waters subsided. 

 Perceiving the two women who had caused the rain to come 

 down in such torrents, he put them to death, and on burning 

 them he collected their ashes and blew them up to the sky, 

 and said : " You shall no longer travel on earth ; you shall 

 be clouds, and only when the clouds become heavy, then it 

 will rain. That is all will remain of you." This is why no 

 one can make rain now. 



Then all human beings were changed into animals that 

 live in the water; some into salmon, some into eels, some 

 into beavers, and other aquatic animals. Thus it came that 

 "this our ancient people" now live in the depths of the sea. 

 They are there as large and small salmon, lobsters, sea otters, 

 land otters, minks, seals, and other monsters of the deep. 

 This is the third generation of mankind. 



But from the flint-boy and the girl another people grew 

 up, and their descendants filled the world for the fourth 

 time. In those days there lived in a lodge a poor family, 

 consisting of a woman and her husband, a son and a little 

 daughter. One day a crow came into the lodge and said to 

 the man: " Make a bow and arrows ! " When he had finished 

 these the crow said: "Now go out and hunt in the woods; 

 kill the white-tailed deer, the elk, the black bear, the cougar, 

 the wild cat, and the grizzly bear; kill all kinds of animals, 

 eat their flesh, make blankets and dresses for yourselves 

 from their skins which are good to wear, and grow rich." 



