The nest had the entrance below with tiers of cells built up one
above another to the roof of the cave. The great U'la'gu' was there,
with thousands of smaller ones, that we now call yellow-jackets. The
hunters built tires around the hole, so that the smoke filled the cave
and smothered the great insect and multitudes of the smaller ones,
but others which were outside the cave were not killed, and these
escaped and increased until now the yellow- jackets, which before
were unknown, are all over the world. The people called the cave
Tsgagun'yi. " Where the yellow-jacket was." and the place from which
they first saw the nest they called Atahi'ta. " Where they shouted," and
these are their names today.
They say also that all the fish and frogs came from a great monster
fish andman did not believe it. and the
dog said, "If you want a sign that I speak the truth, look at the hack
of my neck." lie looked and saw that the dog's neck had the skin
worn oil' so that the hones stuck out.
Then lie believed the dog, and began to build a raft. Soon the rain
came and he took his family, with plenty of provisions, and they all
got upon it. It rained for a long time, and the water rose until the
mountains were covered and all the people in the world were drow ned.
Then the rain stopped and the waters went down again, until at last
it was safe to come oil the raft. Now there was no one alive hut the
man ami his family, but one day they heard