21 . 
Willaimson in his history of Maine says: "The Indians feared till 
lately to tosit the summit of Ktaadn. They saperstitiously supposed 
it to be the summer residence of an evil spirit, called by them Pamela 
who in the beginning of Snow-timejrose with a great noise, and took 
his flight to some unknown warmer regions. They, tell a story, that 
seven Indians, a great many moons ago, too boldly went up the mountain 
and were certainly killed by the great Panola : for, they say, ’we 
never hear of them more, and our fathers told us, an Indian never 
goes up to the top of Ktaadn and lives to return.’ 
They say that Pamela is very great and very strong indeed; - 
that his head and face are like a man’s, his body, shape and feet, 
like an eagle’s, and that he can take up a moose with one of his 
claws" 
