LEGENDS OF MYTHOLOGICAL FAME 179 



and enchantments, and defend the house from 

 lightning. 



" Should you ask where Nawadaha 

 Found these songs so wild and wayward, 

 Found these legends and traditions, 

 I should answer, I should tell you, 

 ' In the birds' nest of the forest, 

 In the lodges of the beaver. 

 In the hoof-prints of the bison, 

 In the eyrie of the eagle !'" 



Longfellow: 7he Song of Hiazvatha. 



