THE SOTTTHEEN 8HOBE3 OF LAKE SUPEBIOB 347 



in hia hunting of the Storm Fool, Pau-Puk-Keewis fleeing from 

 Hiawatha : 



Sped away in gust and whirlwind, 

 On the shores of Gitche Gumee, 

 Westward by the Big-Sea- Water, 

 Came unto the rocky headlands, 

 To the Pictured Rocks of Sandstone 

 Looking over lake and landscape. 



And the Manito of mountains 

 Opened wide his rocky doorways, 

 Opened wide his deep abysses, 

 Giving Pau-Puk-Keewis shelter 

 In his caverns dark and dreary, 

 Bidding Pau-Puk-Keewis welcome 

 To his gloomy lodge of sandstone. 



Then he raised his hands to heaven, 

 Called imploring on the tempest. 

 Called Waywassimo, the lightning, 

 And the thunder, Annemeekee ; 

 And they came, with night and darkness, 

 Sweeping down the Big-Sea-Water, 

 From the distant Thunder Mountains ; 

 And the trembling Pau Puk-Keewis 

 Heard the footsteps of the thunder, 

 Saw the red eyes of the lightning. 

 And Waywassimo, the lightning. 

 Smote the doorways of the caverns, 

 With his war-club smote the doorways 

 Smote the jutting crags of sandstone ; 

 And the thunder, Annemeekee, 

 Shouted down into the caverns, 

 Saying, " Where is Pau-Puk-Keewie I" 



It is something altogether novel to have the spirit of its own 

 national poetry thus associated with scenes of this new world, and 

 breathing over them a living soul akin to that which haunts with 

 such thrilling memories the cave of Staffa and the rocky shores of 

 Iona. The striking, and in some cases, singularly beautiful forms of 

 the Pictured Hocks, have been hewn out of the sund-stone cliffs along 

 the south-eastern shore of the lake, by the prolonged action of the 

 winds and waves sweeping from " the distant Thunder Mountains" 

 of the far north through unrecorded centuries, and exhibit all the 

 fantastic and picturesque variety which is so characteristic of the 

 wave-wrought sculpturings of Nature's architecture. They hav? 

 been described with considerable minuteness in Messrs. Poster and 



