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Show INDIAN DEPREDATIONS 315 Twenty Wamp- su- ene Twenty one Wamp- su- ene soos spinko Thirty Pam- su- ene Forty Wats- u- ene tom- su- ene Fifty Man- i- gin tom- su- ene Sixty Nav- i- une tom- su- ene Seventy Tat- su- ene tom- su- ene Eighty Ni- wat- su- ene tom- su- ene Ninety Sur- rom- su- ene tom- su- ene One hundred Soos meh THE TRADITIONS OF THE UTAH INDIANS IN RE-LATION TO THE CREATION OF THE WORLD. When the gods made the world it was dark all over the face of the earth; and they said let us have light; and the chief said, I will make it; I have no arrow long enough to penetrate through the darkness. So he groped about and found some willows ( Cannab), and broke the longest one he could find, put it upon his bow and shot upwards. In a short time a small star appeared. They watched it and it soon began to grow ; light came in, the ori-fice expanded, the darkness disappeared, and they could see to divide the water from the land ; and they made dry ground, and the rivers, lakes, springs, and small streams, and they all sang together. THE FLOOD. The people of the earth a long time ago be-came exceedingly wicked, and the Lord sent out a proclamation for all of the inhabitants of the whole |