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Section the second. Legends connected with the departure from the religious system considered as the orthodox one among the Cherokee. a

In the earliest days of the world, there were two Superior Beings, a woman and a man. At that time, two Sons by this pair were the only children upon earth. These sons were under the uncontrolled charge of their mother. When the boys got old enough to observe, and begin to reason, they wondered why their mother left them everyday for a short time, and where she went to. They begin to watch her period as they grew older, they watched her more intently. It now occurred to them that she always disappeared when their pro vision was exhausted, and always returned with a new stock. They were determined to find out how she came by the supplies with which she fed them. They hid themselves, and followed her, unseen, through a dense forest, to a mysterious and secluded raised structure of logs, into which she shut herself. Peeping through the interstices between