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20 when the Indians start to go to that country which "Ye, ho, waah" had given them, they were fleeing from their enemies. But as they soon came to a great water, "Ye, ho, waah" told their leader to strike the water with a rod, and it should divide and give them a passage(?) through and then flow together and stop their enemies. Thus their leaders did

and thus they (?) through and their enemies

were stopped. "Ye, ho, waah" loved them and there -fore he assisted them in this way. (Footnote a) Once they were in great distress for water; but their leader found a very beautiful spring flowing out of a rock. (Footnote b) The first commandments(?) that(?) were(?) given to the first man, were handed down orally; but men becoming wicked and killing one another, lost them. "Ye, ho, waah," therefore, gave new commandments(?), to the Indians while they were in the wilderness and marked them on a long mouth stone (having descended to the top of a high mountain), and gave them to their leader, and enabled him to read them to the people. He also gave them other instructions which were marked on skins. Their leader, to whom "Ye, ho, waah" gave these laws was a prophet, - and could see "Ye, ho, waah" and was ___ a Nutsaui(?) b Thomas Smith.