determined to cpd her life by plunging down the
fallsv jgThe' boat was seen to descend the roaring
rapidsg^and the- precipice, and of eourse all her
friends gave her up as lost; * but one of the before
mentioned Thunderers; spread a blanket and
caught her as she swooned away,
opened her eyes, she saw a man reclining over
her, and he held''her in his arms. He took her
into a room, and there sat the old Thunderer,
who gave her a very kind ^salutation. He gave
her some medicine, which healed her complaint,
and thentold her that it had beOh in accordance
with his will and purpose that the rattle-snake
should enter her womb* in order that he might
he able to, secure herein his family for a, season.
Be then gave, her in marriage to him who
had Spread out the blanket and, saved '|Wr life.
She remained there one year, when the old
Thunderer told her she must now return to her
home, and tell her people that a great snake
poisoned their water once a year, and that there
was a giant, named Famine, who lived under
ground, and ate up all their corn-fields, which
caused so much mortality and starvation among
the people. He advised' them to remove in order
to give the, Thunderers an opportunity to
destroy these enemies of man. She. returned
home, and in compliance with, the instructions
she brought, the. Senecas removed to Buffalo
creek. Within ten days the Thunderers had
killed Famine, and in one year they hilled the
great snake ’on Buffalo ereek. In a certain season
of the year he poisoned their waters, and
tlien crawled into their grave-yards and ate up
their dead bodies. But now he found none,
and coming out of the ground to learn the
cause, he found that the settlement had been
abandoned. He then tracked them, and found
that they had gone up the river. He followed
them, and was not attacked until he had reached
the shallow waters of Buffalo creek, where they
killed him. His home was subsequently found
by the Indians at Black Bock.