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which I have taught him to do as well as I can
A drizzly rain continued during the morning ending during the P.M. by a sticky snow freezing in the eve. I asked alexis about the clouds and what the natives thought they were and in part explanation he said they thought they remained behind the horizon coming up when they wished to rain or to cover the sky going back again when through.
I also asked about the native idea of the formation of the mountains and he told me that a long time ago the ground was [[strikeout]]all[[strikeout]] perfectly flat and that there came a flood which covered it completely, drowning many people and nearly all the land animals but that a few of each were saved by ascending a single high mountain [[strikeout]]at[[strikeout]] which was on the tundra, that the only people who were saved were a few who got into their bidarro in time and who subsisted upon fish which the caught while floating about and that finally the waves & currents formed high ridges by cutting away the ground and thus the mountains were formed and as the water cut deeper it gradually receded until the people landed on the mountains and lived there until the water subsided when they returned to their [[blotted out]] houses. [[/blotted out]] former or to new