all living things, ere He assumed the shape of the eagle, and at his fiat imparted to them substantial form and vital energy. The idea, that the earth was raised out of the Ocean, seems to have been pretty general amongst the Aborigines. STANZA XIX. _Yet man was not; then great Cawtantowit spoke To the hard mountain crags, and called for man._ According to the traditions of the Narragansets, the Great Spirit formed the first man from a stone, which, disliking, he broke, and then formed another man and woman from a tree; and from this pair sprang the Indians. STANZA XXII. _Then did he send Yotaanit on high--_ Yotaanit was the God of Fire; Keesuckquand, God of the Sun; Nanapaushat, of the Moon; and Wamponand was the ruling Deity of the East. STANZA XXIII. _All things thus were formed from what was good, And the foul refuse every evil had; But it had felt the influence of the God, (How should it not?)--_ Heckewelder ascribes to the Indians the opinion that nothing bad could proceed from the Great and Good Spirit. Waban is here speaking in conformity to that opinion. Hence he represents the creation of Chepian, or the evil principle, as an incidental but necessary effect, yet forming no part of the original design. STANZA XXVII. _And manittoos, that never death shall fear, Do too within this moral form abide._ “They conceive,” says Williams, “that there are many gods, or divine powers, within the body of man--in his pulse, heart, lungs, &c.” STANZA XXVIII. _But if a sluggard and a coward, then To rove all wretched in the gloom of night._ “They believe that the soules of men and women go to the southwest--their great and good men to Cawtantowit his house, where they have hopes, as the Turks have, of carnal joys. Murtherers, liars, &c., their soules (say they) wander restless abroad.”--_Williams’ Key._ STANZA XXXVIII. _This yet unproved and doubted by the best._ The Charter of Pennsylvania was granted in 1681. The philanthropic Penn was preceded by Williams in the adoption of a mild and pacific policy toward the natives. Both seem to have been equally successful. STANZA XLV. _Ere dark pestilence Devoured his warriors--laid its hundreds low, That sachem’s war-whoop roused to his defence Three thousand bow-men, and he still can show A mighty force._