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VARIATIONS OF THE ABOVE TALES.

Juan Quintana related portions of these myths, but did not knon them as well as Laforia.

Quintana's version differed in the following points:—

• The Raven, Ka-ga, placed a log, ket'-an-da (Quintana indicated with the position of his hands that its length was about four feet), in the water, telling the people that if it sank they would always return to the under-world; if it floated, they would reappear upon the earth in four days after death. It sank.
• Sun was the father and Moon the mother of the Apaches.
• Eagles were destroyed by one of the Apaches. This man adds, to his inquiry as to the time of the arrival of the eagles the question, "Where does he alight?"
• No blood is given to the young eagles. One of the old eagle struck in the side, and the other in the neck.
• Bat declares her basket strong enough to carry a buffalo.

Quintana states that, under the ancient order of things, the Moose, Ketl-in, was equally destructive with the Elk to human life; that this animal disappeared in the Rio Grande country, above Santa Fé, where its influence is yet to be seen in hummocky,broken hills along the river, which suggest to the Indian mind the hump of the moose.

His account of the killing of the Elk is much abbreviated, and differs by omitting the spider incident, and substituting the services of the Gopher, who builds four chambers in the end of each of the four tunnels, which the Elk tears open with his antlers.