To carry water he
killed many seals; he filled their bladders with water.
So they sailed across the sea. This was before the white people had
ever heard of America. The white men did not discover this country
first at all. Glooskap discovered England, and told them about it. He
got to London. The people had never seen a canoe before. They came
flocking down to look at it.
The Woodchuck had lost her boy. This boy it was, who first discovered
America (England?). This boy could walk on the water and fly up to the
sky. [Footnote: This tale was taken down in very strange and confused
English. The first part is in my notes almost unintelligible.] He took
his mother to England. They offered him a large ship for his stone
canoe. He refused it. He feared lest the ship should burn. They offered
him servants. He refused them. They gave him presents which almost
overloaded the canoe. They gave him an anchor and an English flag.
He and his mother went to France. The French people fired cannon at him
till the afternoon. They could not hurt the stone canoe. In the night
Glooskap drew all their men-of-war ashore. Next morning the French saw
this. They said, "Who did this?" He answered, "I did it."
They took him prisoner. They put him into a great cannon and fired it
off. They looked into the cannon, and there he sat smoking his stone
pipe, knocking the ashes out.
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