Demeter is the mother of the earth who brings all of the seed and the harvest. When she hears her daughter Persephone's scream she goes looking for her. The King of the Underworld has taken her.
About somebody in the bush knocking out his pipe and a dottle of ash falls out and starts a fire. But there isn't much grass there. But this wizened up spirit comes along and fans the fire and starts a huge fire. It becomes the fire spirit versus the human spirit.
A married chieftain has an affair with the wife of the white official. During a flood the two white people become dependent on the natives for survival.