fore moved, were now filled with salmon,
trout, pike, tittymeg, methy, barble, turbot, and tench, while along the
curling waves of the Great Lake the mighty black and white whale, the
more sluggish porpoise, and many other finny creatures, sported their
gambols. The flesh he dispersed over the land, commanding it to become
different kinds of beasts and land-animals, and it obeyed his commands.
The heavy moose, and the stupid we-was-kish, came to drink in the
Coppermine with the musk-ox, and the deer, and the buffalo. The
quiquehatch, and his younger brother, the black bear, and the wolf, that
cooks his meat without fire,[A] and the cunning fox, and the wild cat,
and the wolverine, were all from the flesh of the dog. The otter was the
tail of the dog, the wejack was one of his fore-paws, and the horned
horse, and the walrus, were his nose.

[Footnote A: It is a prevalent opinion with the savages, that the wolf
cooks his meat before he eats it.]

Nor did the great man omit to make the skin furnish its proportion of
the tribes of living beings. He tore it into many small pieces, and
threw it into the air, commanding it to become the different tribes of
fowls and birds, and it became the different tribes of fowls and birds.
Then first was seen the mighty bird which builds its nest on trees which
none can climb, and in the crevices of inaccessible rocks--the eagle,
which furnishes the Indians with feathers to their arrows, and steals
away the musk-rat and the young beaver as his recompense. Then was the
sacred falcon first seen winging his way to the land of long winters;
and the bird of alarm, the cunning old owl, and his sister's little son,
the cob-a-de-cooch, and the ho-ho. All the birds which skim through the
air, or plunge into the water, were formed from the skin of the dog.

When the great man had thus filled the earth with living creatures, he
called the mother of the world to him, and gave to her and her offspring
the things which he had created, with full power to kill, eat, and never
to spare, telling her that he had commanded them to multiply for her use
in abundance. When he had finished speaking, he returned to the place
whence he came, and has never been heard of since. In due time, the
mother of the world was delivered of two children, a son and a daughter,
both having the dark visage of the Indian race, and from them proceeded
the Dog-ribs, and all the other nations of the earth. The white men
were from t