10 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



HOW THE WHITE RACE CAME TO AMERICA AXD WHY 

 THE GARVIIO BECA^IE A NECESSITY 



RELATED BY SO-SOX-DO-WA 



Now this happened a long time ago and across the great salt sea. 

 odji''ke'dagi'ga, that stretches east. There is, so it seems, a world 

 there and soil like ours. There in the great queen's country where 

 swarmed many people — so many that they crowded upon one 

 another and had no place for hunting — there lived a great c|ueen. 

 Among her servants was a young preacher of the queen's religion, 

 so it is said. 



Now this happened. The great queen requested the preacher to 

 clean some old volumes which she had concealed in a hidden chest. 

 So he obeyed and when he had cleaned the last book, which was at 

 the bottom of the chest, he opened it and looked about and listened, 

 for truly he had no right to read the book and wanted no one to 

 detect him. He read. It was a great book and told him many 

 things which he never knew before. Therefore he was greatly 

 worried. He read of a great n^an who had been a prophet and the 

 son of the Great Ruler. He had been born on the earth and the 

 white men to whom he preached killed him. Now moreover the 

 prophet had promised to return and become the King. In three 

 days he was to come and then in forty to start his kingdom. This 

 did not happen as his followers had expected and so they despaired. 

 Then said one chief follower. " Surely he will come again some- 

 time, we must watch for him." 



Then the young preacher became worried for he had discovered 

 that his god was not on earth to see. He was angry moreover 

 because his teachers had deceived him. So then he went to the 

 chief of preachers and asked him how it was that he had deceived 

 him. Then the chief preacher said, " Seek him out and you will find 

 him for indeed we think he does live on earth." Even so, his heart 

 was angry but he resolved to seek. 



On the morning of the next day he looked out from the opening 

 of his room and saw out in the river a beautiful island and he 

 marveled that he had never seen it before. He continued to gaze 

 and as he did he saw among the trees a castle of gold and he n^arveled 

 that he had not seen the castle of gold before. Then he said, 

 '' So beautiful a castle on so beautiful an isle must indeed be the 



