--- title: Footnotes to the Sea-gull: — Legends of the Northwest · full text with trees description: Footnotes to the Sea-gull:, «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: [Footnote 101: Kay-óshk is the Ojibway name of Sea-Gull.] --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/23/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends of the Northwest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/) / Footnotes to the Sea-gull: # Footnotes to the Sea-gull: Footnotes to the Sea-gull: of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon: the whole text, 57 sentences and 743 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. \[Footnote 101: Kay-óshk is the Ojibway name of Sea-Gull.\][1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") \[Footnote 102: Gitchee--great,--Gumee--sea or lake,--Lake Superior; also often called Ochipwè Gítchee Gúmee, Great Lake (or sea) of the Ojibways.\][2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") \[Footnote 103: Né-mè-Shómis--my grandfather. "[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") In the days of my Grandfather" is the Ojibway's preface to all his traditions and legends.\][4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") \[Footnote 104: Waub--white---O-jeeg,--fisher, (a furred animal.)[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") White Fisher was the name of a noted Chippewa Chief who lived on the south shore of Lake Superior many years ago.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") Schoolcraft married one of his descendants.\][7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") \[Footnote 105: Ma-kwâ or mush-kwa--the bear.\][8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") \[Footnote 106: The Te-ke-nâh-gun is a board upon one side of which a sort of basket is fastened or woven with thongs of skin or strips of cloth.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") In this the babe is placed, and the mother carries it on her back.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") In the wigwam the tekenagun is often suspended by a cord to the lodge-poles and the mother swings her babe in it.\][11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") \[Footnote 107: Wabóse--the rabbit.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") Penay, the pheasant.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") At certain seasons the pheasant drums with his wings.\][14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") \[Footnote 108: Kaug, the porcupine.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") Kenéw. the war-eagle.\][16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") \[Footnote 109: Ka-be-bón-ik-ka is the god of storms, thunder, lightning, etc. His home is on Thunder-Cap at Thunder-Bay, Lake Superior.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") By his magic, the giant that lies on the mountain was turned to stone.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") He always sends warnings before he finally sends the severe cold of winter, in order to give all creatures time to prepare for it.\][19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") \[Footnote 1010: Kewaydin or Kewaytin, is the North-wind or North-west wind.\][20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") \[Footnote 1011: Algónkin is the general name applied to all tribes that speak the Ojibway language or dialects of it.\][21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") \[Footnote 1012: This is the favorite "love-broth" of the Ojibway squaws.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") The warrior who drinks it immediately falls desperately in love with the woman who gives it to him.[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") Various tricks are devised to conceal the nature of the "medicine" and to induce the warrior to drink it; but when it is mixed with a liberal quantity of "fire-water" it is considered irresistable.\][24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") \[Footnote 1013: Translation:[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") Woe-is-me\![26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") Woe-is-me\![27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") Great Spirit, behold me\![28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") Look, Father; have pity upon me\![29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") Woe-is-me\![30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") Woe-is-me!\][31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") \[Footnote 1014: Snow-storms from the North-west.\][32](32/ "tree and pragmatics") \[Footnote 1015: The Ojibways, like the Dakotas, call the \_Via Lactea\_ (Milky Way) the Pathway of the Spirits.\][33](33/ "tree and pragmatics") \[Footnote 1016: Shingebis, the diver, is the only water-fowl that remains about Lake Superior all winter.[34](34/ "tree and pragmatics") See Schoolcraft's Hiawatha Legends, p. 113.\][35](35/ "tree and pragmatics") \[Footnote 1017: Waub-ésè--the white swan.\][36](36/ "tree and pragmatics") \[Footnote 1018: Pé-boân, Winter, is represented as an old man with long white hair and beard.\][37](37/ "tree and pragmatics") \[Footnote 1019: Se-gún is Spring or Summer.[38](38/ "tree and pragmatics") This beautiful allegory has been "done into verse" by Longfellow in \_Hiawatha\_.[39](39/ "tree and pragmatics") I took my version from the lips of an old Chippewa Chief.[40](40/ "tree and pragmatics") I have compared it with Schoolcraft's version, from which Mr. Longfellow evidently took his.\][41](41/ "tree and pragmatics") \[Footnote 1020: Nah--look, see.[42](42/ "tree and pragmatics") Nashké--behold.\][43](43/ "tree and pragmatics") \[Footnote 1021: Kee-zis--the sun,--the father of life.[44](44/ "tree and pragmatics") Waubúnong--or Waub-ó-nong--is the White Land or Land of Light,--the Sun-rise, the East.\][45](45/ "tree and pragmatics") \[Footnote 1022: The Bridge of Stars spans the vast sea of the skies, and the sun and moon walk over on it.\][46](46/ "tree and pragmatics") \[Footnote 1023: The Miscodeed is a small white flower with a pink border.[47](47/ "tree and pragmatics") It is the earliestblooming wild-flower on the shores of Lake Superior, and belongs to the crocus family.\][48](48/ "tree and pragmatics") \[Footnote 1024: The Ne-be-naw-baigs, are Water-spirits; they dwell in caverns in the depths of the lake, and in some respects resemble the Unktéhees of the Dakotas.\][49](49/ "tree and pragmatics") \[Footnote 1025: Ogema, Chief,--Ogema-kwa--female Chief.[50](50/ "tree and pragmatics") Among the Algonkin tribes women are sometimes made chiefs.[51](51/ "tree and pragmatics") Net-nó-kwa, who adopted Tanner as her son, was Oge-mâ-kwa of a band of Ottawas.[52](52/ "tree and pragmatics") See John Tanner's Narrative, p. 36.\][53](53/ "tree and pragmatics") \[Footnote 1026: The "Bridge of Souls" leads from the earth over dark and stormy waters to the Spirit-land.[54](54/ "tree and pragmatics") The "Dark River" seems to have been a part of the superstition of all nations.\][55](55/ "tree and pragmatics") \[Footnote 1027: The Jossakeeds of the Ojibways are sooth-sayers who are able, by the aid of spirits, to read the past as well as the future.\][56](56/ "tree and pragmatics") End of Project Gutenberg's Legends of the Northwest, by Hanford Lennox Gordon[57](57/ "tree and pragmatics") - ← previous: [In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/22/) - ↑ back to [Legends of the Northwest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/)