. Kitchi-Gami : wanderings round Lake Superior. ains. As he saw I was disposed to smile, he remarked,very earnestly, Non, non, monsieur, serieusement ona trouve dej4 a la destruction de la Tour de Babeltous les noms qui sont a present parmi nous. You are jesting. Monsieur, he replied, still more earnestly, jesuis tout-a-fait serieux. Les Grues ont pris possessionde ces terres apres le Deluge. Cest bien connu. Pourdes siecles les Grues avaient le nom le plus haut. lissont Merits dans les grands et les plus anciens mere etait une Grue. Ma femme est une les derniers temps ils
. Kitchi-Gami : wanderings round Lake Superior. ains. As he saw I was disposed to smile, he remarked,very earnestly, Non, non, monsieur, serieusement ona trouve dej4 a la destruction de la Tour de Babeltous les noms qui sont a present parmi nous. You are jesting. Monsieur, he replied, still more earnestly, jesuis tout-a-fait serieux. Les Grues ont pris possessionde ces terres apres le Deluge. Cest bien connu. Pourdes siecles les Grues avaient le nom le plus haut. lissont Merits dans les grands et les plus anciens mere etait une Grue. Ma femme est une les derniers temps ils sont un peu timbers.* Maisil y a encore des Grues—1, a La Pointe; 2, au Saultde Sainte Marie; 3, a la Folle Avoine; 4, pres deDetroit; 5, a la baie de Hudson. Enfin, monsieur,les Grues ont ete et sont encore partout les hommes lesplus remarquables du monde ! * Canadian for tombes. 150 A BIRCH-BARK POUCH. In Loon-foots lodge I also saw two other drawingsengraved on the two sides of a birch-bark pouch, andof which I here give a faithful copy :. A was one side, B the other, of the pouch. I will repeat the explanations given me. by my jos-sakid as clearly and fully as possible, but, of course, Idid not understand it all, partly through the laconicmanner of my Mentor, who had no desire to reveal allthe mysteries, and partly because the affair cannot berendered perfectly clear. I believe, however, that thelittle I caught is sufficiently interesting to claim spacehere. On asking Loon-foot what No. 1 was, he naturallyfirst told me the history of the creation of the world,and when I brought him back to the real point, he THE GREAT WIGWAM. 151 then explained : That is the big water, Kitchi- Garni,or Lake Superior. This sea, and the lands round it,form a great wigwam. The broad square round thesea represents the path of life, on which men have totravel. (Probably no more than the daily path of duty,the scene of the joy and suffering of the Ojibbeways ?) The outlets or holes at either si
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