One version of this story was given to me by Tomah Josephs, another by
Mrs. W. Wallace Brown. In the latter Glooskap's canoe is a great ship,
with all kinds of birds for sailors. In the Shawnee legend of the
Celestial Sisters (Hiawatha Legends), a youth who goes to the sky must
take with him one of every kind of bird. This indicates that the
Glooskap voyage meant a trip to heaven.
_How Glooskap is making Arrows, and preparing for a Great Battle. The
Twilight of the Indian Gods._
(Passamaquoddy.)
"_Is Glooskap living yet_?" "Yes, far away; no one knows where.
Some say he sailed away in his stone canoe beyond the sea, to the east,
but he will return in it one day; others, that he went to the west. One
story tells that while he was alive those who went to him and found him
could have their wishes given to them. But there is a story that if one
travels long, and is not afraid, he may still find the great sagamore
(_sogmo_). Yes. He lives in a very great, a very long wigwam. He
always making arrows. One side of the lodge is full of arrows now. They
so thick as that. When it is all quite full, he will come forth and
make war. He never allows any one to enter the wigwam while he is
making these arrows."
"_And on whom will he make war_?" "He will make war on all, kill
all; there will be no more world,--world all gone.
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