332 FOSSIL MEN. 



Tubal-cain, the first metallurgist, Jubal, the first 

 musician, and Jabal, who first exchanged the cavern 

 or the wooden hut for the skin tent of the nomad, and 

 tamed the larger beasts of burden, these were heroes 

 of old, men to be deified by succeeding ages. Under 

 various names, and with various attributes, these and 

 other great inventors are to be found in all the myth- 

 ologies of the Old World, and to this America adds 

 its testimony. Every American nation has its great 

 demi-god or hero, to whom it ascribes the origin of the 

 arts of life. Manco Capac of Peru, and Qetzalcoatl 

 of Mexico, are familiar to all readers of American 

 history, and Hiawatha, of the Iroquois, is but the same 

 personage known under different names among all 

 the American tribes. Among the Micmacs of Nova 

 Scotia he is Glooscap, a benevolent giant and wonder- 

 worker, who dwelt apart, but was always near and 

 accessible to those who sought his aid. He taught 

 them the arts they knew, had marvellous influence 

 over all living things, used the wild animals as mes- 

 sengers, and rode over the sea on whales. Great 

 rocks and hills represent his kettles and his wigwams, 

 and the bones which geologists call those of the mas- 

 todon, belong to the gigantic beaver which he hunted. 

 He has been driven from the earth in disgust by the 

 wholesale destruction of wild animals, and the mar- 

 ring of the face of nature by the settlements of the 

 whites, but one day he will return to his people and 

 redeem them from their sins and evils, and restore 

 them to welfare and happiness. 



