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He went North, Best Beloved, and he found
All-the-Elephant-there-was digging with his tusks and stamping
with his feet in the nice new clean earth that had been made
ready for him.

'Kun?' said All-the-Elephant-there-was, meaning, 'Is this right?'

'Payah kun,' said the Eldest Magician, meaning, 'That is quite
right'; and he breathed upon the great rocks and lumps of earth
that All-the-Elephant-there-was had thrown up, and they became
the great Himalayan Mountains, and you can look them out on the
map.

He went East, and he found All-the-Cow there-was feeding in the
field that had been made ready for her, and she licked her tongue
round a whole forest at a time, and swallowed it and sat down to
chew her cud.

'Kun?' said All-the-Cow-there-was.

'Payah kun,' said the Eldest Magician; and he breathed upon the
bare patch where she had eaten, and upon the place where she had
sat down, and one became the great Indian Desert, and the other
became the Desert of Sahara, and you can look them out on the
map.

He went West, and he found All-the-Beaver-there-was making a
beaver-dam across the mouths of broad rivers that had been got
ready for him.

'Kun?' said All-the-Beaver-there-was.

'Payah kun,' said the Eldest Magician; and he breathed upon the
fallen trees and the still water, and they became the Everglades
in Florida, and you may look them out on the map.

Then he went South and found All-the-Turtle-there-was scratching
with his flippers in the sand that had been got ready for him,
and the sand and the rocks whirled through the air and fell far
off into the sea.

'Kun?' said All-the-Turtle-there-was.

'Payah kun,' said the Eldest Magician; and he breathed upon the
sand and the rocks, where they had fallen in the sea, and they
became the most beautiful islands of Borneo, Celebes, Sumatra,
Java, and the rest of the Malay Archipelago, and you can look
them out on the map!

By and by the Eldest Magician met the Man on the banks of the
Perak river, and said, 'Ho! Son of Adam, are all the Animals
obedient to you?'

'Yes,' said the Man.

'Is all the Earth obedient to you?'

'Yes,' said the Man.

'Is all the Sea obedient to you?'

'No,' said the Man. 'Once a day and once a night the Sea runs up
the Perak river and drives the sweet-water back into the forest,
so that my house is made wet; once a day and once a night it runs
down the river and draws all the water after it, so that there is
nothing left but mud, and my canoe is upset. Is that the play you
told it to play?'

'No,' said the Eldest Magician. 'That is a new and a bad play.'

'Look!' said the Man, and as he spoke the great Sea came up the
mouth of the Perak river, driving the river backwards till it
overflowed all the dark forests for miles and miles, and flooded
the Man's house.

'This is wrong.

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