Show I Origin Mosquitoes f The Indians have a yery satisfactory I account of the origin of the Montezuma mosquitoes The legend runs thus moquitoes tus There were in times of old many moons I ago wo hugefeathered monster permitted per-mitted by Jkianitou to descend from the sky andalight on the banks of the Seneca river Their form was that o the t f mosquito They were so largfr = that they flew toard1he earth StandlngTaneithter l hank they guarded the < river and I stretching their long necks into the I canoes of the Indians aff fney Atteinpted to paddle along the stream g bbl dthQrr up as the tQrk kingiatKe table gobbled up the frogs The destruction of life was so great that not an Indian could pass without being d Yo dnthetempt It was long l before the monsters could be exterminated ana hen only Y11e combined com-bined efforts of all the Cayaga and Onondaga nations The battle was terrible I terri-ble but the warriors finajly triumphed and the mammoth mosquitoes were slain andlelt unburied For this neglect the I Indians had to pay dearly The carcasses II decomposed and the particles Vivified by II I the sun flew off in clouds of mosquitoes J which have filled the country ever since I |