But one day the evil-one came, as in the Bible legend the Prince of the _Rakchasos_ (Raknaros--Ragnarok?) came, and broke up this paradise. Adima and Héva leave their _island_; they pass to a boundless country; they fall upon an evil time; "trees, flowers, fruits, birds, vanish in an instant, amid terrific clamor";[1] the Drift has come; they are in a world of trouble, sorrow, poverty, and toil. And when we turn to America we find the legends looking, not westward, but _eastward_, to this same island-refuge of the race. When the Navajos come out of the cave the white race goes _east_, and the red-men go _west_; so that the Navajos inhabit a country _west_ of their original habitat, just as the Jews inhabit one _east_ of it. "Let me conclude," says the legend, "by telling how the Navajos came by the seed they now cultivate. All the wise men being one day assembled, a Turkey-Hen came flying _from the direction of the morning star_, and shook from her feathers an ear of blue corn into the midst of the company; and in subsequent visits _brought all the other seeds they possess_."[2] In the Peruvian legends the civilizers of the race came _from the east_, after the cave-life. So that these people not only came from the east, but they maintained intercourse for some time afterward with the parent-land. On page 174, _ante_, we learn that the Iroquois believed that when Joskeha renewed the world, after the great battle with Darkness, he learned from _the great tortoise_ [1. Jacolliet, "The Bible in India," p. 198. 2. Bancroft's "Native Races," vol. iii, p. 83.] {p. 374} --always the image of an island--how to make fire, and taught the Indians the art. And in their legends the battle between the White One and the Dark One took place in the east near the great ocean. Dr. Brinton says, speaking of the Great Hare, Manibozho: "In the oldest accounts of the missionaries he was alleged to reside _toward the east_, and in the holy formula of the meda craft, when the winds are invoked to the medicine-lodge, the _east is summoned_ in his name, the door opens in that direction, and there _at the edge of the earth_, where the sun rises, on _the shore of the infinite ocean that surrounds the land_, he has his house, and sends the luminaries forth on their daily journey."[1] That is to say, in the east, in the _surrounding_ ocean of the east, to wit, in the Atlantic, this god, (or godlike race,) has his house, his habitation, upon a land surrounded by the ocean, to wit, an island; and there his power and his civilization are so great that he controls the movements of the sun, moon, and stars; that is to say, he fixes the measure of time by the movements of the sun and moon, and he has mapped out the heavenly bodies into constellations.