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Updated: May 15, 2025
Rink says that he had five different versions of this tale, and that one was from Labrador, a country often traveled by the Micmacs, and even by the Penobscots and Passamaquoddies; I myself knowing one of the latter who has been there. I conjecture that this tale sets forth the aboriginal idea of the origin of a certain disease supposed to have come from America.
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
I had a wholesome respect for the opinions of these old soldiers, for they had campaigned against Indians in Texas, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico long before I had seen a more savage redman than the indolent, basket-making descendants of the Passamaquoddies and Penobscots. Accordingly, without appearing to notice their remarks, I approached the chief, and said, interrogatively: "Apache?"
This Abenaki band, ancestors of the present Penobscots, were no idolaters, but had been converted more than half a century. In the official list of the Indian allies they are set down among the Christians. A Winter of Discontent
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