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��ugadagwa"tun nafe turned it over then

��edalipamapskwi'lak where it turned to stone

��e'skwat'e still there

��ni'"kwup'te' ' now even. 1

TRANSLATION

��Then said Glusk^'be to his grandmother, "Now, grandmother, I am going to travel to search for and transform things, so that our descendants may not have such hard times to exist in the future. Now I am leaving, and shall inspect the rivers and lakes. I shall be gone long, but do not worry." Then he started off paddling, and entered all the rivers empty- ing into the ocean. He inspected them. Wherever there were bad falls, he lessened them, so that they would not be too dangerous for his descendants. He cleared the carrying- places. Then he left his canoe upside down, where it turned into stone, and may be seen there yet.*

7. GLUSKA'BE STOPS THE WATER

FAMINE, ORIGINATES FISHES AND THE

FAMILIES

amaska-'man o'dene kadama'gi'nag w sulduwak He found a village (where) they looked feeble

a'lnpbak e'lmi* na'lmuik pglabemu * the people. Up river Guards-Water '

uga'lhama'wun nabi a'lnpba' nabi held back water from the people. Water

na'nagwutc kwa'skwi' ka'dawusmo'lduwak some to death died of thirst.

mala'm'te Gluskp'be dalibe'djo'se una''mi'ha Then Gluskj'be there came he saw

��udalna'bema his people

��kadamagi'nag w su'lduwak looking sickly feeble.

��no'dagwedji -< molan tanali''dabi' v le rda'- Then he asked, "What is the reason (of this)?" They*

1 This was the mouth of the Penobscot River, and the canoe is nowadays pointed out as a rock lying on the shore near Castine.

1 The rock near Castine, Me., mentioned in preced- ing footnote.

��nagi'zi-ha'dawun can make him

��mohodit ke'ganaka"tahogona pglabe'mu said, "Almost he has killed us Guards- Water;

ngwa'skwi' kada'wusmoldi'bana nagaT- we are dying of thirst, as he*

hamogonena nabi'' no'drdaman

forbids us water." Then he said

Gluskp'be ni-'a'tc

Glusk ? 'be, "I

kemi-'lgona nabi'' nodlo"sana sa'rjgamal 4 give you water." They went to the chief 4

pglabe'mu e - 'i't nodi' 'Ian kegame'si- Guards-Water where he was; then he said, "Why

kadama'gi'hat' go'sa'snawa' naso"ke do you enfeeble our descendants? For this

ni'"kwup' gode'ldaman elr'gadama'gi'hat' now you will be sorry for enfeebling

go'sa'snawa' ni'"kwup' nra namr'lan our descendants, now I shall give them

nabi namazi-'tc' kade'dabi wulp'beda'- water, and all will share the water good*

mana ni'mi'p'hon na'ga wdama'hi'ganip'han benefit." Then he grabbed him and he broke his* back:

we'dji' ni'"kwup' tama'hi'ga'nat masi'' hence now broken-backed all

kaba'lamak metcda"tamo ugi'zelda'muwan bull-frogs are. Even then not he would give up

nabi'' Gluskp'be wr'kwanaman uda'mhi'gan water. Gluskp'be took his axe

nagasr'bi' uda'm'tahan ktci'a'bas'i

and cut down a big tree

wi'gwe'sk' uga'uhan pglabe'mual

yellow birch, cutting it so upon Guards- Water

nelega'wi'lat wr'gwesk' pgbbe'mual

when it fell yellow birch Guards- Water

gwa'sk' w tahan nawe'dji' ki'zi'dabr'taTjk it struck him dead. That is how originated

sibu pan-awa'mpske w tuk' w6 namazi the river Penobscot River 5 then all


 * A frog-like monster, the prototype of the frogs.

4 Supposed to have been at Chesuncook Lake.

5 The etymology of this name is not clear. It is translated by the narrator as "river that broadens out." Varying translations have been suggested.

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