o have been made, at the great deluge, from the flesh
of the perishing Indian.]

[Footnote 16: In Northern Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River, the
scene of a terrible massacre by the Indians and Tories in 1778.
Campbell wrote _Gertrude of Wyoming_ on the incidents of that July
5th.]

[Footnote 17: A section of Alabama, taking its name from the chief
defeated by De Soto in 1540.]

"The Falls of Minnehaha." (The Scenery about Fort Snelling, etc.)

THE DESCENDING STAR.

This legend is related by Kah-ge-ga-gah-bawh, chief of the Ojibway
Nation, or Chippewas, in his "Traditional History of the Ojibway
Nation" purporting to be the first volume of Indian history written by
an Indian. In common with his forest brethren, he "was brought up in
the woods." Twenty months passed in a school in Illinois constituted
the sum-total of his schooling. But he had learned the traditions of
his people, as was customary, from the lips of the chief, his father.

Through the stilted language of this somewhat unlettered Indian we
catch faint glimpses of the poetic beauty with which the tradition
glowed when actually related at the wigwam door. An attempt has been
made to retain and crystallize this poetic beauty in the preceding
metrical version of the Indian legend.

THE TRAILING ARBUTUS.

A new version of the beautiful and popular legend of the first spring
flower, making the visitant to the old man's lodge a maiden, and
identifying the blossom as the trailing arbutus, was told by Hon. C.
L. Belknap of Michigan before the Folk-Lore Society in Washington,
Dec., 1891.

THE SEA-GULL.

[Footnote 18: _Kay-oshk_ is the Ojibway name for the sea-gull.]

[Footnote 19: _Gitchee_--great,--_Gumee_--sea or lake,--Lake Superior
also often called Ochipwe Gitchee Gumee, Great Lake (or sea) of the
Ojibways.]

[Footnote 20: _Ne-me-Shomis_--my grandfather. "In the days of my
grandfather" is the Ojibway's preface to all his traditions and
legends.]

[Footnote 21: _Waub_--white--_O-jeeg_--fisher (a furred animal). White
Fisher was the name of a noted Ojibway chief who lived on the south
shore of Lake Superior many years ago. Schoolcraft married one of his
descendants.]

[Footnote 22: _Ma-kwa_ or _mush-kwa_--the bear.]

[Footnote 23: The _Te-ke-nah-gun_ is a board upon one side of which a
sort of basket is fastened or woven with thongs of skin or strips of
cloth. In this the babe is placed and the mother carries it on her
back. In th