Kulóskap the master : and other Algonkin poems / translated metrically by Charles Godfrey Leland and John Dyneley Prince.

  • Charles Godfrey Leland
Date:
1902
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Credit: Kulóskap the master : and other Algonkin poems / translated metrically by Charles Godfrey Leland and John Dyneley Prince. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IV HOW KULOSKAP NAMED THE ANIMALS, AND DISCOVERED THAT MAN WAS * THE LORD OF THEM ALL [ Passamaquoddy'] TTtifc ktag'nocVmul uch Ktiloskap* This is an ancient tale of the Lord,- Told ’mid the tales of the spirit time, How the Master of Beasts and Men Was born in the Sunrise land, The land of the Wabanaki; Though other traditions tell That he came from across the ocean In a great stone canoe, A barque which was all of granite. Covered with trees for masts. When the great Lord of All, The Chief of Beasts and Men, Descended from this ark, He went into the land Of the Wabanaki, The children of the Light; And calling all the Beasts Gave unto each a name: Unto the Bear, Muiiin; And as he gave it, asked: * TTifs I will tell you about KuKjskap.
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