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The young man looked about for a suitable man in whom to con- 

 fide his secret and after some searching he found a man named 

 Columbus and to him he confided the story. Then did Columbus 

 secure some big canoes and raise up wings and he sailed away. He 

 sailed many days and his warriors became angry and cried that the 

 chief who led them was a deceiver. They planned to behead him 

 but he heard of the plan and promised that on the next day he 

 would discover the new country. The next morning came and then 

 did Columbus discover America. Then the boats turned back and 

 reported their find to the whole world. Then did great ships come, 

 a good many. Then did they bring many bundles of the five things 

 and spread the gifts to all the men of the great earth island. 



Then did the invisible man of the river island laugh and then 

 did he say, " These cards will make them gamble away their wealth 

 and idle their time; this money will make them dishonest and 

 covetous and they will forget their old laws ; this fiddle will make 

 them dance with their arms about their wives and bring about a 

 time of tattling and idle gossip ; this rum will turn their minds to 

 foolishness and they will barter their country for baubles ; then 

 will this secret poison eat the life from their blood and crumble 

 their bones." So said the invisible man and he was Hanisse'ono, 

 the evil one. 



Now all this was done and when afterward he saw the havoc and 

 the misery his work had done he said, " I think I have made an 

 enormous mistake for I did not dream that these people would 

 suffer so." Then did even the devil himself lament that his evil 

 had been so great. 



So after the swarms of white men came and misery was thrust 

 upon the Ongwe-oweh the Creator was sorry for his own people 

 whom he had molded from the soil of the earth of this Great 

 Island, and he spoke to his four messengers and many times they 

 tried to tell right men the revelations of the Creator but none would 

 listen. Then they found our head man sick. Then they heard him 

 speak to the sun and to the moon and they saw his sickness. Then 

 they knew that he suffered because of the cunning evils that 

 Hanisse'ono had given the Ongwe-oweh. So then they knew that 

 he was the one. He was the one who should hear and tell Gai'wiio*. 

 But when Ganio'dai'io' spoke the evil being ceased his lament and 

 sought to obstruct Gai'wiio', for he claimed to be master. 



