Cosmogonical and Culture Myths.--The Culture-hero, Michabo.--Myths from Lindstrom, Ettwein, Jasper Donkers, Zeisberger.--Native Symbolism--The Saturnian Age.--Mohegan Cosmogony and Migration Myth. National Traditions.--Beatty's Account.--The Number Seven.-- Heckewelder's Account.--Prehistoric Migrations.--Shawnee Legend.--Lenape Legend of the Naked Bear. CHAPTER VII.--THE WALAM OLUM: ITS ORIGIN, AUTHENTICITY AND CONTENTS 148 Biographical Sketch of Rafinesque.--Value of his Writings.-- His account of the WALUM OLUM.--Was it a Forgery?-- Rafinesque's Character.--The Text Pronounced Genuine by Native Delawares.--Conclusion Reached. Phonetic System of the WALUM OLUM.--Metrical Form.-- Pictographic System--Derivation and Precise Meaning of WALUM OLUM.--The MS of the WALUM OLUM.--General Synopsis of the WALUM OLUM--Synopsis of its Parts. THE WALUM OLUM.--ORIGINAL TEXT AND TRANSLATION 169 NOTES 219 VOCABULARY 233 APPENDIX 255 INDEX 257 THE LENAPE AND THEIR LEGENDS. CHAPTER I. § 1. THE ALGONKIN STOCK. Scheme of its Dialects--Probable Primitive Location § 2. THE IROQUIS STOCK. The Susquehannocks--The Hurons--The Cherokees § 1. _The Algonkin Stock_. About the period 1500-1600, those related tribes whom we now know by the name of Algonkins were at the height of their prosperity. They occupied the Atlantic coast from the Savannah river on the south to the strait of Belle Isle on the north. The whole of Newfoundland was in their possession; in Labrador they were neighbors to the Eskimos; their northernmost branch, the Crees, dwelt along the southern shores of Hudson Bay, and followed the streams which flow into it from the west, until they met the Chipeways, closely akin to themselves, who roamed over the water shed of Lake Superior. The Blackfeet carried a remote dialect of their tongue quite to the Rocky Mountains; while the fertile prairies of Illinois and Indiana were the homes of the Miamis. The area of Ohio and Kentucky was very thinly peopled by a few of their roving bands; but east of the Alleghanies, in the valleys of the Delaware, the Potomac and the Hudson, over the barren hills of New England and Nova Scotia, and throughout the swamps and forests of Virginia and the Carolinas, their osier cabins and palisadoed strongholds, their maize fields and workshops of stone implements, were numerously located.