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carved a warning on rocks before a danger which threatened the 

 tribe. Greatly excited, the Penobscots despatched scouts in all 

 directions, so that when the Mohawks arrived, they found the 

 warriors perfectly prepared awaiting them behind a brush-wood 

 breast- work {lisignigoi) . 



No damage was done at that time, but on another occa- 

 sion the Mohawks completely defeated the Penobscots, saving 

 only one man as a guide to the St. John's river {^Wulas- 

 tuk)}^ Constructing rafts there, they aimed to float down strean 

 for the purpose of destroying the village of Maliseets {Wulastii- 

 kuk). The Penobscot guide told them that there was no falls 

 or rapids before them, knowing full well all the time that on this 

 river is the great fall of Chikchenikbik of nearly lOO feet, the 

 roar of whose torrent is perfectly inaudible to the traveler until 

 he is within a few yards of it. The Mohawks, trusting to their 

 guide, were all sleeping on their rafts, when the Penobscot, sud- 

 denly jumping overboard, swam ashore and left his 6oo sleeping 

 foes to be carried over the falls. Not a man escaped to tell 

 the tale except the Penobscot guide. 



The Mohawks, discouraged by their repeated failures, decided 

 to make a treaty of peace among all the nations, apportioning 

 the disputed hunting grounds as follows : To the Penobscots, 

 the Penobscot river and its tributaries ; to the Maliseets the 

 St. John's river and its tributaries ; to the Passamaquoddies, 

 the St. Croix river^^ and its territory, and to the Micmacs their 

 own streams. The WabanakiXw^di ever after as one nation, un- 

 disturbed by internal strife and keeping the Mohawks and Six 

 Nations at peace with them by presenting a united front. This 

 is the origin of the Wampum Laws which were the product of 

 the union of the tribes. 



The following song is the plaint of the youthful Indian lover 

 who sings to his fair one before going away to his winter hunt- 

 ing in the autumn when the leaves are red. He promises to re- 

 turn to her embraces in the Spring when the green foliage has 

 begun to bud. The song has in the original four sense-stanzas. 

 A refrain precedes the first, second and fourth and is repeated 

 for the last time after the fourth verse. In Mitchell's MS. no 



