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which accounts for the peculiar veneration they have for springs, caves and lakes. 
In Peru the natives of the valley of Xanca claim to be the descendants from 
a man and woman who came out of the spring of Guaribalia; those of Cuzco, 
that they came out of Lake Titicaca, while those of the valley of Andabayla say 
that they came out of Lake Socdococa. There is also a Peruvian tradition that 
after the flood six people came out of a cave and re-peopled the desolate earth. 
The Caddoes, Ionies and Ahmandankas of Texas had a tradition that they 
issued from the Hot Springs of Arkansas. The Mandans and Minnetaries, on 
the Missouri River, say they came out of a large cavern. 
The Appalachian tribes claim to have originated at an artificial mound on the 
Big Black River in the Natchez country. 
De Smet tells us of a tradition among the Blackfeet which is romantic as it is 
peculiar. There are two lakes, the Lake of Men and the Lake of Women. From 
the one man had his origin, the other woman. Upon the first meeting of the 
sexes the men struck up a sharp bargain with the women, in which the latter were 
outwitted and reduced to perpetual drudgery. The men proposed to become 
their protectors on the one condition that they would assume all the household 
care and drudgery. 
The Ute Indians tell of a beginning when the earth was covered with mist, 
which the Great Spirit dispersed it with the bow and arrow, and found the earth 
uninhabited. He then took clay, fashioned man, and set him to bake, but as it 
was only an experiment, the fires were not hot enough, so he came out white—a 
white man. ‘The Great Spirit tried it again, with a more intense heat. Leaving 
him to roast a long time, he came out black—the negro. He then fashioned one 
with greater skill, and after the most careful baking, he came out red—the red 
man, the first Indian—the most perfect type of manhood. 
Some others claim an animal origin, as the Toukaways of Texas, from a 
mole; the Lenni Lenapes or Delawares from a snail which inhabited the banks of 
a large river which had its source in the mountains near the rising sun. The 
Choctaws assert that they were originally crawfish. One day a part of the family 
were out enjoying the sun and were carried away and became Choctaws. The 
remainder are yet under the earth. Such is the general character of their tradi- 
tions. 
Dr. George M. Beard repeated in the New York Academy of Sciences his 
interesting mesmeric experiments with the patients whom he has specially trained 
for this purpose. The results were again most interesting and astonishing. Arti- 
ficial catalepsy was produced, and each of the senses temporarily suspended 
at will, The experiments in the production of local anesthesia were particularly 
interesting ; a small spot in the face of one patient being made insensible to pain, 
while all the surrounding parts were abnormally sensitive. 
