“ Then again someone passes, even Marten whom they had deserted; joyfully they call to him; they beg him that they may return home with him. He lies to them, as if they were strangers; he replies to them: "Really, I was married last spring." Afterwards he goes his way. So he departs; he leaves the water-sprites alone.
And finally, Lox passes along, whom they call the Indian Devil, more cunning than any other beasts in the woods; he is more terrible than all, as many as there are. ”

“ Pukjinskwes is angry. Then she pursues him, as a wolf which is starving chases a rabbit.
Sable, very frightened, cries out: "My elder brother; my brother." Pukjinskwes then screams out: "You must go as far as the island where Pogumk is, in order to save yourself." When this was said, Pogumk steps out to her from hiding; she sees him; then at once she is frightened. Then she loudly laughs; she says: "I was only chasing him in jest, because I like Sable."
But Pogumk answers her; he says: "I know you, and we know your devices, you evil demon." Then as his magic comes to him ”

“ This is the hunter; his little pipe being in his pocket he does not worry at all in his heart; he goes trough the woods; as long as he lives, it shall always be that he will find venison in his wigwam. But he who wished that women should love him never wins a wife; he does not go far before he opens his bag. ”

“ They did not have long to wait; while sitting and cooking they hear something coming like something chasing through the woods. Now that is the big rock; in anger it had rested a little while; then rushing at once through the forest, smashing the mighty trees it acts like the thunder; it cuts down the trees like grass, coming like lightning; more and more strongly it runs up. ”

“ All want him in their wigwams; he refuses to see them; he stays along with his uncle, the strange one; he always takes great delight in him in old times.
There is to be a great feast and games, but Kuloskap does not care to go, either as a guest or as a performer in the sports. Still he asks Mikchich whether he will not take part; he says: "All the girls will be there." He asks him why he does not marry; it must be that he lives in a lonely fashion. ”

“ It gets deeper until they dash into rapids round about rocks and ravines and waterfalls, so horrible to see that they think of death every time the canoe jumps. It becomes narrow water and more rapid. ”

“ Is it not better that I should smoke my pipe at home?"--"If this is all that is wanted," Kuloskap replies to his uncle "do not take thought for the exterior of your face; he who knows how can easily do it over, as a suit of clothes is made over."--"Yes my child," says Mikchich, "what do you say if you can make over the inside of a person?"--"By the great beaver," answers the chief, "that is hard to do, (yet) before I leave this village, I will do this. ”

“ The woman follows him as he goes to hunt; she wants to see what he will do. He does not go far; then he stumbles; he falls down; he hurts himself. His wife then goes back; she says to her mother: "Mikchich is not worth anything." Her mother says: "He will do something in time; be patient."
One day Kuloskap says to Mikchich: "To-morrow will be a general big ball-game; you must take part in it. Because all the young men are enemies here, they will try to kill you; they will crowd you and trample you; when they do, it will be near your father-in-law's wigwam. ”

“ He turns himself into a beautiful girl and they are pleased with him; as soon as the older sons arrive, they welcome so fair a virgin. The young chief in the village wants her very much. It does not indeed take long before she comes to him (before he gets her) . He does not delay at all. Lox knows this skein before it is spun; he thinks that it is high time for him to show his hand (lit. put his hand to it) . Wonder is in the village, when it is reported one evening that the chief's wife will soon be a mother. ”

“ Neither men nor beasts can ever get so angry.
He tracks the water-sprites as they run away in the night. They break through thick woods. Then it happens, when it is about to dawn, that they arrive at a broad river. They cannot cross over. On the bank there passes a great crane. He is the ferryman, is the crane. He is always anxious for good and kind words; he is proud of being well shaped. ”

“ The water-sprites are good friends with the birds; they collect them together; they say: "Fetch thorns, briars, burs, hornets of all sorts; do you bring them into the wigwam which they make for Lox, and hornets, ants and other winged stinging and biting things," and they spread out sharp flint rocks on the floor. They make for the bed of the bridegroom hornets (and) , an ant-hill for his seat.
Now it takes Lox all day to untie the hair-string. When he comes down, it is already dark; when he sees the wigwam he is glad; he thinks: "Now I shall rest myself well." ”

“ No one who is not a wizard can smoke it. This they pass around; everyone smokes; the brothers swallow the smoke. Kuloskap fills it full; he burns out all the tobacco (with a single puff) .
They say: "He is a very great wizard, but once (more) he must be tried." They all try to smoke with him still. The wigwam is closed; they hope to smother him with smoke. He puffs away, as if he were sitting on top of a mountain. They cannot bear it any longer. They say: "This is not worth while; let us play ball."
Where they played is near Saco where it bends in the river. They begin to play ball ”

“ They are glad to see their chief; they do what they can, so as to please him; he is joyful. He makes them his huntsmen and his messengers.
In all stories, as many as there are, the loons are faithful to him forever. So even to-day when the Indians hear the loons, they say: "The Loon is calling to Kuloskap" (Micmac tongue) ; (or) "he is 'looning' to Kuloskap" (Passamaquoddy tongue) .
IV. Kuloskap and the Whale. It was in old times; in the beginning when everything started, men were like animals and animals (were) men; how Winpe the great sorcerer steals Kuloskap's family ”

“ This (noise) is seldom heard by the Wabanaki. This, it is said, is heard even now in a few abandoned wigwams in the wild woods among the Indians (or: among men) . There is still here and there a hard (!) magician or wonder-working man, he (who) knows how to produce it; the sound is so wonderful in quality that those who hear it must laugh. Then Kuloskap orders the Marten to the woods to fetch a certain root which, when eaten, will cause the miracle as the youth desires it, but he warns him that he shall not touch it until he comes home. ”

“ Once then Wuchowsen blows very strongly (much) every day; it gets more and more windy; finally there is a gale and tempest. Kuloskap cannot go out in his canoe. He says: "Wuchowsen, the great bird who lives in the north, he is doing this."
To seek him, he goes very far, so that he may find him; he finds him sitting on a big rock, a great white bird. He says to him: "Grandfather, you have no mercy on your children. You have made evil weather here, storms; you move your wings a little too much." ”

“ To those others Marten gives back their charmed clothes.
Now Moose is a good man and good natured; when he comes and sees Marten married, he hears the tale. He says: "It is well; it is not difficult; it is as if I were married already." So he goes to the pond in the mountains, in the rocks, among the grape-vines; he then sees the maidens, as it were, jumping about and splashing; they are sporting like mad fishes in the water. He, being inflamed at once, takes the clothes of these poor water-sprites and he starts to run off.
The one whom he desires most overtakes him first ”

“ These brothers who kill hear someone talking; slyly they look in; they see a newcomer so like their father, that no one can know that it is not the same; they say: "A great wizard this, but he must be tried or he goes." ”

“ The next day all the men go hunting. He is warned by Kuloskap: "They will try to kill you." The young men go on ahead and Mikchich delays and waits. Then, however, he makes a magic flight; he jumps over their heads. No one sees him and in the strong (thick) woods, there he kills a moose. He drags it to the snowshoe road; when the hunters arrive, he is sitting on the moose, smoking and waiting for them.
Now Kuloskap tells them (ironically) : "Someone will come out ahead, all during the day." Then this happens and all are very angry. They decide to kill Mikchich and his nephew Kuloskap. ”

“ In the morning all go to the woods; not one is left; he only who is worth most (?) (is not there) . At night they camp. Every day they expect their chief. So then Pukjinskwes is chief.
On the thirteenth day the chief remembers his friend the fox who is a wizard or magician. Then he sings; the fox hears him, although he is far off. So he starts and goes to the island. When he finds the chief, at that time Pogumk cannot go (swim) far. The fox says to him that he will take him to the main-land; that they will go together by water. ”

“ It is said that men were the first, then as they became inflamed and desired one thing and another, they become animals, but before this was so, they can change to one form and another.
Kuloskap then lived on an island called Ajaligunmechk; with him are many Indians who are like animals; these too have their customs; also as birds (they are) .
Nearly all of them and especially Partridge use magic power (and) are jealous of Kuloskap. So they planned to kill him; when he goes away from there, they take away his grandfather Woodchuck and Blackcat ”

“ Then Kuloskap stamps on the ground. The water foaming, rushed down; it comes from the mountains; all the earth rings with the roar. Then Kuloskap sings a song such as can change the form of everyone. These brothers and their father become fish; they rush off together where the water foams; they are as long as men. ”

“ II. Kuloskap and Pukjinskwes. There was a village of Indians; everyone, indeed, was a Blackcat. One, however, the cleverest and bravest, goes off every day; he takes along his bow and arrows, axe and knife; he kills moose and bear; to the poor man he gives; he fed the poor. When he returns, they approach him to ask him where is what he has killed.
When he tells them, then they go off; their toboggans they fetch along; then they load them with meat. This is Pogumk the chief; his father (was) a bear. Pukjinskwes the witch was a she-Blackcat. ”

“ Out come beautiful ones like white doves; fair girls surround him with black burning eyes and flowing is their hair; they swarm about him more and more; then, when they kiss him he forbids them; they swarm about him more and more. ”

“ There is a lonely wigwam near a river; there were Sable and his grandmother. He says: "My grandmother arise." They think that they have only been sleeping. Thus Kuloskap gains power. This river runs underground in darkness.
VI. Kuloskap and the Ice-Giants. It was at Saco, Maine, there lives a man with his two sons and a daughter. All are great wizards; all are Kiwa‛kws (Ice-Giants) who eat people, men, women and children. Everything they do is wickedness, horrible deeds, and in the world (people are) tired of them and their evil acts.
Once, when they were young, Kuloskap was a friend to them ”

“ He takes him to the woods to hunt; he gives his belt to the boy. This gives him magic power. Very much meat he gets by hunting.
So then it happens next morning that Crow sees Sable drying meat on his wigwam; then quickly when they saw him satiated (full) , they are afraid; they say: "Kuloskap has come." Everyone went into his (own) house; he waits to die and indeed he (Kuloskap) has come. When he sees them frightened like rabbits when a wildcat comes, Kuloskap opens up, because he is good natured and he pities and forgives them. ”

“ Woman or man she becomes according as she wishes, but in these days she is a man. Then she being evil; she hates the chief. A long time she considers how she can punish him and take away his place.
One day when they prepare what they have, they go to travel. Pukjinskwes says to the chief; "Come with me; we shall go to gather eggs;" they go in a canoe. Again they canoe still farther. Then they come to an island. When they land, while he gathers eggs viz., Pogumk (Kuloskap) , Pukjinskwes then leaves him, going off in the canoe and she begins to sing: "I leave Pogumk on the island ”

“ She is looking ahead, but he (Sable) is looking backward.
As Pogumk comes out from the leaves, Sable sees him. He says: "My elder brother is following." When she turns, she does not see anything. Pogumk hides himself in a tree. Then they go on. Again Sable calls out: "Certainly my mother I see my elder brother." Then once more she turns; she catches him and they rejoice much and laugh. Then she throws Sable down on the leaves like a piece of wood.
Kuloskap instructs Sable: "Run to camp; when you come there, make a big fire, a hemlock bark fire, and throw into it Pukjinskwes's child ”

“ IX. Kuloskap and Turtle. How Kuloskap turns his uncle Mikchich (Turtle) into a great person and how he marries him; how he gets him a wife; about turtles' eggs; how Kuloskap drove away the wizards by merely smoking red-willow bark.
Kuloskap, when he goes from Newfoundland, uses a canoe; he comes to Pictou; he comes to an Indian village; there he finds his uncle Turtle. He is very lazy and he goes slowly. They say: "He is certainly Kuloskap's uncle," but others think this is by adoption. ”

“ Kuloskap dresses him in most beautiful clothes. He promises him that to the end of his days, he will be a most beautiful man. Because he is patient and tough, he must be like the toughest animal, so that he may kill all creatures in this world.
Then Mikchich goes to the feast (or: playground) . Now the chief of Pictou has three young beautiful daughters. The youngest one he (Turtle) looks on, and he returns and says: "I see her whom I desire." But, as it happens, all the lads at Pictou desire this maiden. They will kill him who wins her.
Etutci Kuloskap wikwunemen naka w'matceptun wapap ”

“ We look upon the mountains
This is a song of the mountains. D. I sit and I beat the drum. I summon the animals and even the storm winds obey my drum.
I sit and I beat the drum. Even the storms and thunders answer me when I drum; and indeed great Aplasemwesit stops, obeying my drum. ”