While our fathers were always boating and navigating

(1) TalU, the dried land, ta, of ilie islands.

(2) They leave iho soiilhcm couniriîs covorcd wilh icc, whetlier the is'ands cr ihc iicw-rison nioiituiiis of Mexico.

(3) Exaclly going lo ihc plains of ihc United States.

(4) Is this not again an allusion lo ihe inin of thc land of ihe Crosccnl ? So il looks altogelher.

lliey saw in tlie east Ihal Ihe snakeland wets biiglil and weallliy. (Hère begins a fine poetical rhyming narrative.)

44. The head-beaver Wihlamok, and the big-bird Kicholen, ^vcrc saying to ail, let us go to the snake Island Akomen.

13. By going with us, \<e shall annihilale ail the snaking pcople, Wemaken.

•16. Having ail agreed, Ihe norlhcrlings and easterlings, went GvtT Ihe waler of the frozen sea to possessthe land.

17. It was wonderful when they ail went over the smooth deep water of the frozen sea, at the gap of snake sea in the groat océan.

48. They were ten thousand in the dark, who ail go forlh in a single night in the dark, to the snake Island of the eastern land Wapanaki in Ihe D nk, by walking ail the people. — Olini.

19. They were the manly north, the manly east, the manly south; with manly eagle, manly beaver, manly wolf ; with manly hunter, manly priest, manly rich ; with manly wife, manly daughler, manly dog (42 words ail homophonous rhymes).