. Kitchi-Gami : wanderings round Lake Superior. some distance together. I asked my friendMakwa the meaning of the grand star on his replied that it was his dream. It is the finestar, he said, which thou seest glistening whenthou risest early, over there (here he pointed to theeast). I met it once in a dream. It glistened andshone continually on my path, now rising, now sink-ing. At length it spoke to me, and said: i Makwa, Iwill be thy guide. Thou shalt glisten and shine as I 400 THE LITTLE WASPS DREAM. do. Like me thou wilt once set. But so long asthou livest, I will float over thee a
. Kitchi-Gami : wanderings round Lake Superior. some distance together. I asked my friendMakwa the meaning of the grand star on his replied that it was his dream. It is the finestar, he said, which thou seest glistening whenthou risest early, over there (here he pointed to theeast). I met it once in a dream. It glistened andshone continually on my path, now rising, now sink-ing. At length it spoke to me, and said: i Makwa, Iwill be thy guide. Thou shalt glisten and shine as I 400 THE LITTLE WASPS DREAM. do. Like me thou wilt once set. But so long asthou livest, I will float over thee and protect that period, I have always painted it on theback of my blanket, and carry about its picture in re-membrance. The readers of Longfellows Hiawatha will behere reminded of the poetic canto, The son of theevening star, and I was very pleased to find at thisplace a confirmation, to some extent, of the poet. From an Indian of the name of Amongs (The LittleWasp), I received the following picture, representinghis greatest dream:. I will accompany it with some explanatorymarks: re- THE FRENCHMAN. 401 No. 1 is the dreamer, lying on his bed of moss andgrass. No. 2 is his guardian spirit, or the person who spoketo him in his dream, and explained the occurrencesthat took place in it. In the present case, these events seemed to belimited to the fact of the dreamer seeing the sky-expanded above him, and full of birds and is a real hunters sky, and the whole a simplehunters dream. Only the heads and long necks of the animals ap-pear. Several varieties may be recognised—the stag,the elk, a roebuck, and two large birds. Amongs also dreamed on this occasion of a French-man, represented at No. 3 as a figure wearing a Indians picture themselves without a hat, becausethey usually have no other head-gear than their mattedhair, or at most an animals skin, worn turban-wiseround the head. The hat, however, appears to themsuch a material part of the European, as
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