This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...Leap, about a mile west of the village, is a high, perpendicular bluff, rising sheer from the lake nearly two hundred feet. The legend that gives the giant cliff its name is of a young Ojibway girl and her warrior love. You who have not seen the noble red man and his squaw will perhaps find a great deal more poetry and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...Leap, about a mile west of the village, is a high, perpendicular bluff, rising sheer from the lake nearly two hundred feet. The legend that gives the giant cliff its name is of a young Ojibway girl and her warrior love. You who have not seen the noble red man and his squaw will perhaps find a great deal more poetry and charm in the legend than those of us who have made the acquaintance of the various tribes from Hudson Bay to the Apache country. At all events, it is the story that gave the bluff its name--almost identically the story that attaches to another eminence hear Stockbridge, Mass., and to scores of places of lesser fame. The Ojibway girl's name was Me-che-nemock-e-nung-o-qua, and you will please remember that it was with no hope of ever changing it that she fell in love with Ge-niw-e-gwon, the valiant brave, for marriage does not offer that boon to the Indian girl. At all events, she often wandered to this cliff and gazed from its dizzy heights, and witnessed the receding canoes of the large war parties of the combined bands of the Ojibways and Ottawas speeding south, seeking fame and scalps. And it is recorded that she sang the Ojibway love-song, running like this: "A loon, I thought, was looming, A loon, I thought, was looming. Why! it is he, my lover! Why! it is he, my lover! His paddle in the waters gleaming, His paddle in the waters gleaming." Those Indian songs are pretty only when you can't hear them, by the way, and it happened that when she sang the brave she loved was far enough away to feel no disturbance from the music. The tale goes on to say that she could distinguish his cries amid the shouts of the returning warriors; but one day she missed his voice, for an enemy's arrow had pierced his heart, and after his body had been...
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