Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2

by James Athearn Jones

[24] Michabou is generally the Indian Neptune: sometimes, however, they mean by this title the Great Spirit.

[25] The mountains.

[26] Hills of the Serpent, the Rocky Mountains. I have before mentioned the Indian superstition that thunder is the hissing of a great serpent, which has his residence among those mountains.

[27] Hollow voice—echo.

[28] Martha's Vineyard, a little island upon the coast of New England.

[29] The owl. See the tradition, vol. 1. p. 61.

[30] A brook in Barnstable County, respecting which this tradition is current among the Indians.

[31] The Indians, as I have before remarked, believe the world to be an island, and always speak of it as such.

[32] Gayhead, which has a chalk cliff.

[33] See note, vol. i. page 59.