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Show Origin' of the Grand Canypn of the Colorado, Of the vast collection op" Indian myths and legends laboriously gathered gather-ed by the intrepid, one-armed voyager, I j Major .Powell, few are more interesting interest-ing than that which describes, in the mythology of the Utes-the origin of the Grand Canyon: of, the Colorado, .a marvel worthy to rank with the. Sev-' en wonders,, it teljs. how, in the olden, .time, jhc wifo of (he groat war-chi(?f i ( of the Utes diedi and (he chief was in- H consolable -and otrljed-uponhis god H Tawots' to take pity 'otrhim and lead W him (o hisr'wife. And the god looked down on him and s.aw thatire wa.s un- I bappy, and (ailing hisliuge.magic ball I in lu's hand, hp ro.lled it' before him on jfl the. ground ; . and where it jolJed, 9 it out lap down, into the farth and 9 opened the Grand Canyon, thousands U of fcet deep. And through it iho god 9 led the heavy-hearled chief of.the.Utes, '9 and showed him his wife in the happy 9 hunting grounds; and leading him ' 9 back, he. poured a miglity river through 9 the. canyon, and along fheir trail, that 9 -no...o.ne jn!ght3.e able, to follqw after 9 them ; and the river has continued to 9 $iin ey er Eince Old and: Jrcw. 9 fA..'.?''.'-f. r !B |