14. But there was a bad spirit _Makimani_, who caused the bad beings _Makowini_, black snakes _Nakowak_, and monsters or large reptiles _Amangamek_. 15. And caused also flies, and caused also gnats. 16. All the beings were then friends and stood there. 17. Thou being KIWIS, good God WUNAND (these are 2 gods) and the good makers or spirits were such. 18. With the Jins NIJINI, the first men, and the first mother, their wives, which were Fairies _Nantinewak_.(23) 19. The first food of the Jins and Fairies was a fat fruit _Gattamin_. 20. All were willingly-pleased, all were easy-thinking, and all were well-happified. 21. But after awhile a Snake-priest, _Powako_, brings on earth secretly the Snake worship _Initako_, of the god of the Snakes WAKON.(24) 22. And there came wickedness, crime and unhappiness. 23. And bad weather was coming, distemper was coming, with death was coming. 24. All this happened very long ago, at the first land _Netamaki_, beyond the great ocean _Kitahikan_. _2d Song. The Flood &c._ 1. There was long ago a powerful snake _Maskanako_, when the men had become bad beings _Makowini_. 2. This strong snake had become the foe of the Jins, and they became troubled, hating each other. 3. Both were fighting, both were spoiling, both were never peaceful. 4. And they were fighting, least man _Mattapewi_ with dead-keeper _Nihanlowit_. 5. And the strong snake readily resolved to destroy or fight the beings and the men. 6. The dark snake he brought, the monster (_Amangam_) he brought, snake rushing-water he brought. 7. Much water is rushing, much go to hills, much penetrate, much destroying. 8. Meantime at TULA, at that island, NAMA-BUSH (the great hare _Nana_) became the ancestor of beings and men. 9. Being born creeping, he is ready to move and dwell at TULA.(25) 10. The beings and men (_Owini and Linowi_) all go forth from the flood creeping in shallow water, or swimming afloat, asking which is the way to the turtle back TULAPIN. (This verse like many others is in rhymes, and metre of 9 words of 3 syllables.) 11. But there were many monsters (_Amangamek_) in the way, and some men were devoured by them. 12. But the daughter of a spirit, helped them in a boat, saying come, come, they were coming and were helped. (The name of the boat or raft is _Mokol_.) 13. Nanabush, Nanabush, became the grandfather of all, the grandfather of the beings, the grandfather of the men, and the grandfather of the turtles. (This is the beginning of a hymn to Nanabush, in rhymes, lasting for 4 verses.) 14. The men were there, the turtle there, they were turtling altogether. (_Tulapewi_ are the turtle-men.) 15. He was frightened, he the turtle, he was praying, he the turtle, let it be to make well. 16. Water running off, it is drying, in the plains and the mountains, at the path of the cave, elsewhere went the powerful action or motion. _3d Song. Fate after the Flood._