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LIFE OF MOROKEY. 
[1820, 
before the corn was ripe, which caused a dry 
season, and the corn was burnt up." I inquired 
if he believed that the conduct of this man af- 
fected all the countries around, so that rain was 
as scarce with them as with the Mashows ? He 
said, *' No, it is with that as it is with killing 
game, sometimes you have success, and some- 
times not ; sometimes cattle bear, and some-; 
times not; God does all things as he pleases. 
Though you tell the people this they will 
not believe you, but will command you to work 
and make rain ; the people," said Morokey, 
" would be ruined if I were not to do it. When 
a man is sick you give him medicine ; it is God 
who cures him, but the medicine is the means ; 
so the killing of a beast in the morning is the 
means, and you get rain in the evening." 
With respect to the origin of mankind, the old 
men had given him no information ; but there is 
a great hole in the Marootzee country out of 
which men first came, and their footmarks are still 
to be seen there. One man came out of it long 
ago, but he went back, and is there yet. Morokey 
never saw the hole himself, but his uncle, who is 
dead, had seen it, and saw the footmarks very 
plain. The cattle also came from the same hole. 
Matoome was the first man, and had a younger 
brother of the same name, and a sister whose 
