Excerpt from The Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 48: November, 1913 The birds to them came from the home of the Great Spirit, which was an island in the Blue Sea toward the set ting sun. Their whiteness was of the clouds, for wherever the birds live, they partake of the colors in nature around them. The gulls came from the snow and cloud lands beyond, and, were always regarded as birds from the mystical world of the Great Spirit. Among the Pawnee Indians, a legend exists which explains the origin of these birds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.