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Rh the others. Therefore the children wondered if she were already dead that she yet slept when the sun was high in the heavens. And they shook her until her eyes were opened. Then she said, "Ah, what was this beautiful food which ye gave me, and which caused me to sleep so well?"

Then the people having given her more, and seeing that she took no ill effect, ate of the flying fish also. And the people being many, the fish which the waves washed up each day were not sufficient. Therefore said the men, "Let us cut down the tree, and so shall we eat in plenty of the fish."

The two tribes of Lavarata and Aurana set out to cut down the tree, and they took with them stone axes and food to eat when they were weary of their work. And first the Aurana tribe cut at the trunk of the tree while the Lavarata tribe made ready food, that they who laboured might eat when they were tired. Then the men of Aurana, having cut mightily into the trunk of the tree, sat down to eat. But as they ate the Lavarata tribe rose up secretly, and with few blows smote the tree until it fell. Then rushed forth great waters, and spread themselves forth as far as the eye could see, and they were full of fish of all kinds. And these waters were what men now call the sea.

Now as the tree fell, it fell upon the men of Aurana who sat eating. And with such force did it smite them that they were rolled into the waters which surged before them, and thus they were