s of the ash,
Where he sits so calm and cool,
And above his head the muckawiss
Sings his gloomy song,
And croak the frogs in the pool,
And he hears at his feet the horn-snake's hiss;
Then often flit along
The shades of the youth and maid so true,
That haunt the Lake of the White Canoe.

[Footnote A: The Indians could never be brought to believe that paper
was any other than a tanned skin invested with the powers of a
spirit.]

[Footnote B: See note, vol. i. page 195.]

[Footnote C: Chesapeak bay.]

[Footnote D: Bay of Saganaum, in Lake Huron.]

[Footnote E: Cress or _crease_, a poisoned arrow, seldom used,
however, by the tribes east of the Rocky Mountains.]

[Footnote F: Bird of Ages--See the Tradition vol. ii. page 35.]

[Footnote G: Virginia.]

[Footnote H: Scalps are suspended from a pole in the lodge, and
usually in the smoke.]

[Footnote I: Alluding to the custom of the Indian of shaving off all
the hair except the scalp-lock.]

[Footnote J: _Wekolis_--another name for the whip-poor-will.]

NOTES.

(1) _Trusty memory._--p. 9.

The memory of the Indians is as astonishing as their native sagacity
and penetration. They are entirely destitute of those helps which we
have invented to ease our memory, or supply the want of it; yet they
are never at a loss to recall to their minds any particular
circumstance with which they would impress their hearers. On some
occasions, they do indeed make use of little sticks to remind them of
the different subjects they have to discuss; and with ease they form a
kind of local memory, and that so sure and infallible, that they will
speak for a great length of time--sometimes for three or four hours
together--and display twenty different presents, each of which
requires an entire discourse, without forgetting any thing, and even
without hesitation.

(2) _Kind Friendship._--p. 14.

Every Indian has a friend nearly of the same age as himself, to whom
he attaches himself by the most indissoluble bonds. Two persons, thus
united by one common interest, are capable of undertaking and
hazarding every thing in order to aid and mutually succour each other;
death itself, according to their belief, can only separate them for a
time: they are well assured of meeting again in the other world never
to part, where they are persuaded they shall have occasion for the
same services from one another. Charlevoix tells of an Indian who was
a christi