Then the lord of men and beasts sang the song again, and there came the
largest, a mighty female, and she bore him well and easily over to
Kes-poog-itk. But she was greatly afraid of getting into shoal water,
or of running ashore, and this was what Glooskap wished her to do that he
might not wet his feet. So as she approached she asked him if land were
in sight. But he lied, and said "No." So she went on rapidly.
However, she saw shells below, and soon the water grew so shoal that
she said in fear, "_Moon-as-taba-kan-kari-jean-nook_? (M.) Does
not the land show itself like a bow-string?" And he said, "We are still
far from land."
Then the water grew so shoal that she heard the song of the Clams as
they lay under the sand, singing to her that she should throw him off
and drown him. For these Clams were his deadly enemies. But Bootup the
Whale did not understand their language, so she asked her rider--for he
knew Clam--what they were chanting to her. And he replied in a song:--
"They tell you to hurry (_cussal_) (M),
To hurry, to hurry him along,
Over the water,
Away as fast as you can!"
Then the Whale went like lightning, and suddenly found herself high on
the shore. Then she lamented and sang:--
"Alas, my grandchild (_noojeech_),
Ah, you have been my death;
I can never leave the land,
I shall swim in the sea no more.
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