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Now, having come to Pulewech Munegoo, the lord of men and beasts was entertained by Kitpooseagunow. "His rod was made of a sturdy oak, His line, a cable, in storms ne'er broke; He baited his hook with a dragon's tail, And sat on a rock and bobbed for whale."
It may be interesting to visitors to Niagara to know that the army of Stone Giants crossed the river during their journey just below the Falls. How Glooskap had a great Frolic with Kitpooseagunow, a Mighty Giant who caught a Whale. N'kah-nee-oo.
And the morning being bright, they went forth far into the forest to find game. But they got very little, for they caught only one small beaver, and Glooskap gave up his share of this to Kitpooseagunow. And he, taking the skin, fastened it to his garter, whence it dangled like the skin of a mouse at the knee of a tall man.
"Wilt thou do half the work with me? either the whales home to the dwelling bear, Or the boat fast bind?" Kitpooseagunow drew up a whale. "The mighty Hymir, He alone two whales drew up with his hook." After this whale-fishing, the Scandinavian giants at home have a trial of strength and endurance. Thor throws a cup at Hymir.
Kitpooseagunow picks up the heavy canoe, with its oars and a spear, and carries them. "Thor went, grasped the prow quickly with its hold-water, lifted the boat together with its oars and scoop; bore to the dwelling the curved vessel." Glooskap asks which of the two shall take the paddle, and which sit in the stern. Hymir inquires,
Rand, is as follows: "After a cow moose or caribou has been killed, her calf is sometimes taken out alive, and reared by hand. As may be supposed, the calf is very easily tamed. The animal thus born is called Kitpooseagunow, and from this a verb is formed which denotes the act." Legends of the Mic Macs, Old Dominion Monthly, 1871. This giant was also called the Protector of the Oppressed.
The Story of Glooskap as told in a few Words by a Woman of the Penobscots How Glooskap, leaving the World, all the Animals mourned for him, and how, ere he departed, he gave Gifts to Men How Glooskap had a Great Frolic with Kitpooseagunow, a Mighty Giant who caught a Whale How Glooskap made a Magician of a Young Man, who aided another to win a Wife and do Wonderful Deeds
Ere this there had been in all the world none of the creatures which dwell in the water, and now they were there, and of all kinds. It is given much more imperfectly in the tale of Kitpooseagunow in the Rand manuscript, and in the Anglo-Indian "Storey of Glooscap."
Now when they came to the beach there were only great rocks, lying here and there; but Kitpooseagunow, lifting the largest of these, put it on his head, and it became a canoe. And picking up another, it turned to a paddle, while a long splinter which he split from a ledge seemed to be a spear. Then Glooskap asked, "Who shall sit in the stern and paddle, and who will take the spear?"
Kitpooseagunow said "That will I." So Glooskap paddled, and soon the canoe passed over a mighty whale; in all the great sea there was not his like; but he who held the spear sent it like a thunderbolt down into the waters, and as the handle rose again to sight he snatched it up, and the great fish was caught. And as Kitpooseagunow whirled it on high, the whale, roaring, touched the clouds.
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