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Updated: May 11, 2025
And now the canoe is at the brink of the Falls it leaps like the salmon when he journeys up the stream it is gone! the raging waters have devoured it no, I see it again the arm of Magisaunikwa is strong, and the paddle unbroken. Help, Manito! he is dashed against the rock at the throat no, the canoe is whirled round and darts away, and I behold it gliding with the youth over the quiet water.
On the smooth bark of a birch tree Painted many shapes and figures, Wonderful and mystic figures, And each figure had a meaning, Each some word or thought suggested. Gitche Manito, the Mighty, He, the Master of Life, was painted As an egg, with points projecting To the four winds of the heavens. Everywhere is the Great Spirit, Was the meaning of the symbol.
Monedowa again took wing, and, shooting into the air, he descended suddenly with great swiftness, and took the path far ahead of the old manito. As he passed the wolf he whispered in his ear: "My friend, is this the extent of your speed?" The manito began to be troubled with bad forebodings, for, on looking ahead, he saw the young hunter in his own manly form, running along at leisure.
'There is none but me; but let me look, and he opened the door of the lodge, when, lo! at a little distance he saw the enraged animal coming on, with slow but powerful leaps. He closed the door. 'Yes, said he, 'he is indeed a great manito: my grandchildren, you will be the cause of my losing my life; you asked my protection, and I granted it; so now, come what may, I will protect you.
But the Manito showed no disposition to grant it. In fact, the task was beyond his powers, but he was unwilling that it should be known. "Fool!" he said, "is a scornful squaw worth the hazard of death and the shame that attends defeat? Seek thy lodge and blow away these thoughts as the wind disperses the winged seeds of the stinging nettle."
Running forward with a yell and a howl, the leader said "I dreamed once that, being in great trouble, an old man, who was a manito, helped me. We shall soon see his lodge." Taking courage, the brothers still went on, and, after going a short distance, they saw a lodge. Entering it, they found an old man, whose protection they claimed, saying that a manito was pursuing them.
There was not a family in all that beautiful region which had not in this way been visited and thinned out; and the manito had quite naturally come to be held in abhorrence by all the Indian mothers in the country.
He carefully searched round, to discover if any portion of the tobacco was unconsumed, but could find none. The offering had not, then, been rejected. The Manito had accepted it. It was not he who sent the storm. Perhaps, some other Manito, who, however, was unable to defeat the sacrifice. The countenance of Ohquamehud brightened, and he began again to collect the brush and scattered sticks.
"Very well," he said; "I give you till morning to live." Grasshopper trembled, for he thought his last hour had come; but the Manito bade him to be of good cheer. When the night came on the clouds were thick and black, and as they were torn open by the lightning, such discharges of thunder were never heard as bellowed forth.
"That is to say," cried Harry, who was surprised and a little nettled to hear what he called the heads of a sermon from a red-skin, "that you, being a man, are very weak, and very foolish, and wicked, and that Manito is very good and patient to let you live?" "Good," said the Indian calmly; "that is what I mean."
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