" So he stepped up to a tree on
the edge of the river-bed and broke off the end of a bough, and it
turned into a skull ten times more terrible than the other. And the
magicians ran before it as it chased them as a lynx chases rabbits;
they were entirely beaten. Then Glooskap stamped on the sand, and the
waters rose and came rushing fearfully from the mountains adown the
river-bed; the whole land rang with their roar. Now Glooskap sang a
magic song, which changes all beings, and the three brothers and their
father became the _chinahmess_, a fish which is as long and large
as a man, and they went headlong down on the flood, to the deep sea, to
dwell there forever. And the magicians had on, each of them, a wampum
collar; wherefore the _chinahmess_ has beneath its head, as one
may say, round its neck, the wampum collar, as may be seen to this day.
And they were mighty _m'teoulin_ in their time; but they were
tried before they went, and that bitterly.
Yes, _seewass_, my brother, this is a true story. For Glus-gah-be
was a great man in his day, and the day will come when I shall go to
him and see him. [Footnote: This legend is from a single authority,
Maria Saksis.]
_How Glooskap went to England and France, and was the first to make
America known to the Europeans_.
(Passamaquoddy.)
There was an Indian woman: she was a Woodchuck (Mon-in-kwess, P.
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