Monau carried into the heaven. He, seeing all things destroyed, spoke thus to Monau: ‘Wilt thou also destroy the heavens and their garniture? Alas! henceforth where will be our home? Why should I live, since there is none other of my kind?' Then Monau was so filled with pity that he poured a deluging rain upon the earth, which quenched the fire, and flowed on all sides, forming the ocean, which we call parana, the great water.”* Brinton's” Myths of the New World,” p. 227. If we travel from Brazil thousands of miles north to the tribes of British Columbia, the Tacullies, they inform us that when the earth had been made, and “became afterwards peopled in every part, it remained until a fierce fire of several days' duration swept over it, destroying all life with two exceptions. One man and one woman hid themselves in a deep cave in the heart of a mountain, and from these two the world has since been re-peopled.”† Bancroft's” Native Races,” vol. iii., p. 98. The natives in the vicinity of Lake Tahoe ascribe its origin to a great natural convulsion. There was a time, they say, when their tribe possessed the whole earth, and were strong, numerous, and rich; but a day came when a people rose up stronger than they, and defeated and enslaved them.” Afterwards the Great Spirit sent an immense wave across the continent from the sea, and this wave engulfed both the oppressors and the oppressed, all but a very small remnant, Then the taskmasters made the remaining people raise up a great temple so that they of the ruling caste should have a refuge in case of another flood…. Half a moon had not elapsed, however, before the earth was again troubled, this time with strong convulsions and thunderings, upon which the masters took refuge in their great tower, closing the people out. The poor slaves fled to the Humboldt River, and, getting into canoes, paddled for life from the awful sight behind them, for the land was tossing like a troubled sea, and casting up fire, smoke, and ashes. The flames went up to the very heavens, and melted many stars, so that they rained down in molten metal on the earth, forming the ore that white men seek.”‡ Bancroft, vol. iii., p. 89. The Indians of Utah and California have legends of a time when the sun-god came too near the earth, and scorched the people with his fierce heat. The god Tawats determined to deliver humanity from this great trouble, so he came to” the brink of the earth, and there watched long and patiently, till at last, the sun-god coming out, he shot an arrow at his face. The fierce heat consumed the arrow ere it had finished its intended course; then another arrow was sped, but that also was consumed; and another, and still another,