A STORY OF THE FLOOD

[Billy Black's Bonfire]

From "Some Additional Myths of the Hoh and Quileute Indians", Albert B. Reagan, Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, Vol. XI, 1934, pp. 17-37.
Informants were Hal George, Luke Hobucket, Harold Johnson, Klakishkee, Bucket Mason, Elon Mason, M.B. Penn, Mrs. Jimmie Howe, Frank Bennett, Klekabuck, Kikabuthlup, Dixon Payne, Weberhard Jones, Arthur Howeattle, Eli Ward, Jack Ward, Beatrice Pullen, Mark Williams, and Carl Black and his wife, Sally Black.

A STORY OF THE FLOOD

In the beginning Kwattee created the animals of the earth. Then by ...

Years came and went and all was good. Then Chief Thunderbird attemp...

Enraged, that bird caused the waters of the great deep to rise. For...

Again Kwattee joined his adversary in battle, and while the conflic...

Again Kwattee and Thunderbird engaged in terrible conflict, and aga...

The battle was again indecisive. Then without any waves or breakers...