Listened to him as he told them

Of his marvellous adventures,

Laughing answered him in this wise:

“Ugh! it is indeed Iagoo!

No one else beholds such wonders!”

He had seen, he said, a water

Bigger than the Big-Sea-Water,

Broader than the Gitche Gumee,

Bitter so that none could drink it!

At each other looked the warriors,