248 THE AMERICAN MOOSE 



Of the tide-swept beach of the stormy bay 

 With amethysts purple and agates gray, 

 And brought to each newly-wedded pair 

 The Great Spirit's benediction fair. 



But the white man came, and with ruthless hand 

 Cleared the forests and sowed the land. 

 And drove from their haunts by the sunny shore 

 Micmac and moose, forevermore.^ 



Most of the striking features of the landscapes 

 which were familiar to the Indians were woven 

 into their mythology. At Bar Harbor are to be 

 found the legendary remains of a moose, killed by 

 Glooskap and turned to stone, while across the 

 bay the petrified entrails of the animal are seen 

 lying where the great benefactor of the Indian race 

 threw them to feed his dogs. The same story, 

 with minor variations, is told of other rocks, and 

 other places, in Maine, New Brunswick, and 

 Nova Scotia. Other characters, too, of the morn- 

 ing twilight of Indian tradition figure in the role 

 of the mighty hunter. 



Kineo ("the largest mass of hornstone known to 

 geologists"), in the aboriginal imagination was a 

 cow moose lying prone in death, victim of the 

 arrow of some supernatural sportsman."* 



3 By Arthur Wentworth Eaton. 



^Thoreau, The Maine Woods, New Riverside edition, p. 235. 



