Myths and legends of Alaska . us see, said Fox. Come up to the sur-face of the water and form a raft from this island tothe land. Then I will take a walk over you and countyou all. The Sea People all came up to the surface of thewater and formed a raft. Fox ran over their backs, pre-tending to count them. But as soon as he reached land,he jumped ashore and went home. Thats all. THE END III •. CHICAGO A. C. McCLURG & • • 7074 Copyright A. C. McCLURG & CO1911 Published September, 1911 !. 3D. PREFACE E~>NG ago, even before the days of the animal peo-ple, the world was only a great ocea
Myths and legends of Alaska . us see, said Fox. Come up to the sur-face of the water and form a raft from this island tothe land. Then I will take a walk over you and countyou all. The Sea People all came up to the surface of thewater and formed a raft. Fox ran over their backs, pre-tending to count them. But as soon as he reached land,he jumped ashore and went home. Thats all. THE END III •. CHICAGO A. C. McCLURG & • • 7074 Copyright A. C. McCLURG & CO1911 Published September, 1911 !. 3D. PREFACE E~>NG ago, even before the days of the animal peo-ple, the world was only a great ocean whereinwas no land nor any living thing except a greatBird. The Bird, after a long, long time, flew down tothe surface of the water and dipped his great blackwings into the flood. The earth arose out of the began the creation. While the land was still soft,the first man burst from the pod of the beach pea andlooked out upon the endless plain behind him and thegray salt sea before him. He was the only man. ThenRaven appeared to him and the creation of other be-ings began. Raven made also animals for food andclothing. Later, because the earth plain was so bare,he planted trees and shrubs and grass and set the greenthings to growing. With creation by a Great Spirit, there came dangersfrom evil spirits. Such spirits carried away the sunand moon, and hung them to th
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