Partridge Island 
and tossed it into the water. The game they 
caught was a large whale, which the youth 
landed as though it were a herring. They 
carried their booty back to Partridge Island, 
whence they had embarked, and finished the 
night by cooking and eating the whole whale. 
Glooscap's power over cold and heat reminds 
us of the season legends of other peoples. He 
had contests with his rivals in which each tried 
to overcome the other with cold. When it 
was Glooscap's turn to resist he built a mighty 
fire of whale oil, but toward morning invariably 
succumbed and allowed his friends to be frozen, 
but never forgot to restore them when the 
contest was over. Then he took his turn at 
congealing his opponent's train and succeeded 
in time, though the opponent was possessed of 
the same power to restore his frozen followers. 
Glooscap finally disappeared at the encroach- 
ments of the white man, driven away by the 
wickedness of the people. When he was with 
them all the animals lived in accord and under- 
stood one another, but at his departure there 
was a confusion of tongues, and the wolf could 
no longer understand the words of the bear, 
nor any animal the speech of another species. 
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