While yet a small boy of tender years, Po-lick-o-quare-ick came down to
the river to Ca-neck, alone, where he spent a great deal of his early
boyhood years in restless wandering, as he was never still. He would
never go with his mother, or with any one else as he went from place
to place alone. On the south side of the river at Ca-neck is a small
lake at the foot of the hill back from the river, and is surrounded
on the outer banks by marshy lands. This lake cannot be observed from
the river or village, and its existence might never be known except by
coming upon its very banks. He spent a great deal of his time playing
in his solitary ways about the lake. Just back of this lake is a rock
that our Christ used as a place where he would continually be sliding
down its side, he wore away one large and some small groove with his
heels, in this solid stone, which can be seen to this day. (This I have
seen many times and my people rub their fingers on these grooves and
then rub the fingers on their eyes, to cure weak or sore eyes.) About
half a mile below the lake, located on the same side of the river, is
another rock, where the young man went for prayers which he offered up
to his father, (God) to bless him with great powers and wisdom. As he
knelt at the top of this rock in prayer he left the sunken imprint of
his knees and feet in the rock, which is still visible.
Another rock concerning our Christ is located a short distance above
the lake on the bank of river, which was his special fishing place,
where he would sit on the rock and fish. Here also in the solid stone
is the sunken imprint of his bare feet and knees, and also the pool
of water, close by, that he cast his fish in; all of which are left
as his written memoirs of his past existence. These are his written
annals left upon the rocks; the traditions handed down through the
long centuries when the Christ himself had passed away, far out on the
ocean waves, perchance to a better land than that, which had given him
birth. (This place I have been close to many times, yet I never went
to see it.) He could speak the language of any tribe or nation without
teaching, and could peer into the darkness of the past, telling the
events of bygone times. He could gaze into the future and tell of the
events to be, so great was his wisdom; he could also command anything
he wanted, and his commands would be answered, to his every wish.
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