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The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/1/page/2/) =Kulóskap the Master=[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") \_And Other Algonkin Poems\_[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") And bade the little creature come to him; Back smiled the baby, but it did not budge.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") (\_See page 108.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") Kulóskap the Master[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") \_And Other Algonkin Poems\_[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") \_Translated Metrically by\_[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") CHARLES GODFREY LELAND, Hon.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") F.R.S.L.; M.A.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") (Harvard)[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") Author of “The Algonquin Legends of New England”[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") AND[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") JOHN DYNELEY PRINCE, Ph.D.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") (Johns Hopkins)[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") Professor in Columbia University and author of various articles on Algonkin dialects[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") \_FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY\_[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") \_New York and London\_[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") \_1902\_[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") COPYRIGHT, 1902 By FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY NEW YORK[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") Registered at Stationers’ Hall, London, England[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") Printed in the United States of America[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") Published November, 1902[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") \_ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE VOLUME\_[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") \_Half-tone Text Illustrations by F.[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") BERKELEY SMITH\_[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") \_Ten Tracings after Indian Designs by CHARLES GODFREY LELAND\_[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") \_Frontispiece by EDWIN WILLARD DEMING\_[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") =Contents=[28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") PAGE =Preface=--By CHARLES GODFREY LELAND 11 =Introduction=--By JOHN DYNELEY PRINCE 21[29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") \_PART FIRST--THE EPIC OF KULÓSKAP\_[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") =Canto First=--\_Creation Legends\_ I. The Birth of Kulóskap 43 II.[31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") The Creation of Man and the Animals 50 III.[32](32/ "tree and pragmatics") The Origin of the Rattlesnakes 56 IV.[33](33/ "tree and pragmatics") How Kulóskap named the Animals 59[34](34/ "tree and pragmatics") =Canto Second=--\_The Master’s Kindness to Man\_ I. What Kulóskap did for the Indians 62 II.[35](35/ "tree and pragmatics") How Kulóskap granted Gifts and Favors to many Indians 64 III.[36](36/ "tree and pragmatics") Kulóskap and the Fool 90 IV.[37](37/ "tree and pragmatics") The Three Brothers who became Trees 94 V. Kulóskap and the Wise Wishers 98 VI.[38](38/ "tree and pragmatics") How Kulóskap was conquered by the Babe 107[39](39/ "tree and pragmatics") =Canto Third=--\_The Master and the Animals\_ I. Kulóskap and the Loons 110 II.[40](40/ "tree and pragmatics") Kulóskap and the Beaver 112 III.[41](41/ "tree and pragmatics") The Sable and the Serpent 118 IV.[42](42/ "tree and pragmatics") Kulóskap and the Turtle 123 V. How Mikchik the Turtle was false to the Master 136 VI.[43](43/ "tree and pragmatics") How Kulóskap conquered Aklibimo the Great Bull Frog 140 VII.[44](44/ "tree and pragmatics") How Kulóskap went Whale Fishing 152 VIII.[45](45/ "tree and pragmatics") Kulóskap and Wuchōsen the Wind Eagle 158[46](46/ "tree and pragmatics") =Canto Fourth=--\_The Master and the Sorcerers\_ I. Kulóskap and Winpe 162 II.[47](47/ "tree and pragmatics") How a Witch sought to cajole the Master 172 III.[48](48/ "tree and pragmatics") How Kulóskap fought the Giant Sorcerers 174 IV.[49](49/ "tree and pragmatics") How the Master showed himself a Great Smoker 182 V. Kulóskap and the Witch 185 VI.[50](50/ "tree and pragmatics") Kulóskap and the Witch called “The Pitcher” 194 VII.[51](51/ "tree and pragmatics") How Kulóskap sailed through the Cavern of Darkness 203 VIII.[52](52/ "tree and pragmatics") How the Master found the Summer 208 IX.[53](53/ "tree and pragmatics") How Kulóskap left the World 213 X.[54](54/ "tree and pragmatics") The Master and the Final Day 217[55](55/ "tree and pragmatics") \_PART SECOND--WITCHCRAFT LORE\_[56](56/ "tree and pragmatics") I. The Wizard’s Chant 223 II.[57](57/ "tree and pragmatics") The Woman and the Serpent 225 III.[58](58/ "tree and pragmatics") The Wizard Snake 229 IV.[59](59/ "tree and pragmatics") The Measuring Worm 231 V. The Pʾmûla or Air-Demon 236 VI.[60](60/ "tree and pragmatics") The Little Boy kidnapped by the Bear 239 VII.[61](61/ "tree and pragmatics") The Wizard and the Christian Priest 242 VIII.[62](62/ "tree and pragmatics") Wizard Warfare 244 IX.[63](63/ "tree and pragmatics") The Wizard’s Hunting 250 X.[64](64/ "tree and pragmatics") Six Short Tales of Witchcraft 253 XI.[65](65/ "tree and pragmatics") A Delaware Youth and his Uncle 256 XII.[66](66/ "tree and pragmatics") The Dance of Old Age 260 XIII.[67](67/ "tree and pragmatics") A Tale of the River-Elves 269[68](68/ "tree and pragmatics") \_PART THIRD--LYRICS AND MISCELLANY\_[69](69/ "tree and pragmatics") I. The Song of Lappilatwan 273 II.[70](70/ "tree and pragmatics") The Story of Nipon the Summer 283 III.[71](71/ "tree and pragmatics") The Scarlet Tanager and the Leaf 295 IV.[72](72/ "tree and pragmatics") The Blind Boy 305 V. A Passamaquoddy Love Song 308 VI.[73](73/ "tree and pragmatics") The Song of the Stars 312 VII.[74](74/ "tree and pragmatics") How the Indians lost their Power 314 VIII.[75](75/ "tree and pragmatics") The Partridge and the Spring 320 IX.[76](76/ "tree and pragmatics") Lox, the Indian Devil 325[77](77/ "tree and pragmatics") =L’Envoi= 337[78](78/ "tree and pragmatics") =Appendix=: \_The Passamaquoddy Wampum Records\_ 340[79](79/ "tree and pragmatics") =Glossary= 361[80](80/ "tree and pragmatics") =Full Page Illustrations=[81](81/ "tree and pragmatics") PAGE Kulóskap and the Babe \_Frontispiece\_ The Creation of Man 50 The Origin of the Rattlesnakes 58 What Kulóskap did for the Indians 67 Kulóskap and the Loons 110 Kulóskap and the Beaver 116 The Sable and the Serpent 122 How Kulóskap went Whale Fishing 154 Kulóskap and Winpe 170 How Kulóskap fought the Giant Sorcerers at Saco 178 How Kulóskap sailed through the Cavern of Darkness 205 The Little Boy Kidnapped by the Bear 241 Wizard Warfare 246 The Dance of Old Age 266 Lox, the Indian Devil 333[82](82/ "tree and pragmatics") =Preface=[83](83/ "tree and pragmatics") BY[84](84/ "tree and pragmatics") CHARLES GODFREY LELAND[85](85/ "tree and pragmatics") PREFACE[86](86/ "tree and pragmatics") Very few persons are aware that there has perished, or is rapidly perishing, among the Red Indians of North America, far more poetry than was ever written by all the white inhabitants and that this native verse is often of a very high order.[87](87/ "tree and pragmatics") For the Indian sagas, or legends, or traditions were, in fact, all songs; as is the case to this day with similar lore in Italy.[88](88/ "tree and pragmatics") Indeed, in the latter country, I have been asked if I would have a fairy tale chanted or repeated as prose\![89](89/ "tree and pragmatics") Thus, all the narratives in my “Algonquin Legends of New England,” especially those referring to Kulóskap (Klûskâbe), or to the gods, might have been correctly made into a poetic cycle, as the Finnish Kalevala was made by Lönnrot.[90](90/ "tree and pragmatics") After I had published my Legends, however, I was made aware by Louis Mitchell, a Passamaquoddy Indian, who had been in the Legislature of Maine, and had collected and written out for me, with strictest literalness, a great number of manuscripts, that there were in existence certain narratives and poems quite different in kind from anything which I possessed.[91](91/ "tree and pragmatics") Among the former was a History of the Passamaquoddy Tribe, illustrated with numerous designs of the birchbark school of art, which I transferred to my friend the late Dr. D. G. Brinton as its most appropriate possessor.[92](92/ "tree and pragmatics") Three of the poems Mitchell wrote out for me in exact, though often quite ungrammatical language, which was so close to the original that the metres betrayed themselves throughout.[93](93/ "tree and pragmatics") I regret that, though I had certainly acquired some knowledge of “Indian,” it was, as a Passamaquoddy friend one day amiably observed, “only baby Injun now grow bigger some day like Miʿkumwess s’posin’ you want to,” in reference to a small goblin who is believed to have the power of increasing his stature at will.[94](94/ "tree and pragmatics") However, I with great care put the Mitchell Anglo-Algonkin into English metre, having been impressed, while at the work, with the exquisitely naïve and fresh character of the original, which, while it often reminded me of Norse poetry, in many passages had strictly a life and beauty of its own.[95](95/ "tree and pragmatics") Among my varied and most valued small possessions is what was once, beyond doubt, the sketch book of Salvator Rosa himself, consisting of a number of blank leaves on one of which still remains an exquisite pen sketch of a head by Bronzino.[96](96/ "tree and pragmatics") There were in it also, at one time, as appears from a memorandum and on a flyleaf, several sketches of Salvator, but these have been cut out and sold.[97](97/ "tree and pragmatics") The binding or cover of the book was made from a large folio-thick parchment leaf from a fourteenth century religious manuscript, whereon are seven illuminated vermilion capitals still remaining.[98](98/ "tree and pragmatics") And, as my manuscript exactly fitted the cover, I placed it therein, where it rested for many years, undisturbed even by a thought save when it occurred to me how the great and savage master, who was himself a poet, would have rejoiced among Indians and liked their lyrics\![99](99/ "tree and pragmatics") “Io sono pittore Gar flink mit der Hand Und bin Salvatore La Rosa genannt.”[100](100/ "tree and pragmatics") It so befell that I, \_per fortuna\_, became correspondent with Professor J. Dyneley Prince, who had come some time after but got far before me in a knowledge of Algonkin, as was shown in various papers containing the original text and translations of Algonkin legends in different dialects.[101](101/ "tree and pragmatics") Whereupon, the thought occurred to me that this fully qualified scholar might revise, correct, and compare my metrical version with the original text, which task would be much facilitated by the fact that he also was well acquainted with Louis Mitchell, and I may here mention that, while I had at one time obtained an accurate copy of the celebrated Algonkin “Wampum Record” which was recited annually in bygone days at the Council of the Tribes, and had it read to me, and written out in Indian English.[102](102/ "tree and pragmatics") Prof.[103](103/ "tree and pragmatics") Dyneley Prince has himself translated it and reproduces a portion of it in the present work.[104](104/ "tree and pragmatics") So it came to pass that this book was written.[105](105/ "tree and pragmatics") And I may here mention that my colleague, while his specialty is the Semitic tongues, also has (like my late friend E. H. Palmer, who professed Arabic at Cambridge) the gift of the Romany and even Shelta, which are as the Latin and Greek of the roads\![106](106/ "tree and pragmatics") **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/1/page/2/) - next →: [page 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/1/page/2/) - ↑ back to [Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/)