And here with a shudder they heard,
flying far from his _tee_ in the mountains,
_Wa-kin-yan_,[32] the huge Thunder-Bird,
with the arrows of fire in his talons.
[F] _Tee--teepee_, the Dakota name for tent or wigwam
[G] See _Hennepin's Description of Louisiana_, by Shea, pp. 243 and 256.
_Parkman's Discovery_, p. 246--and _Carver's Travels_, p. 67.
[Illustration: FALLS OF ST. ANTHONY.
FACSIMILE OF THE CUT IN CARVER'S TRAVELS, PUBLISHED AT LONDON, IN 1778,
FROM A SURVEY AND SKETCH MADE BY CAPT. J. CARVER, NOV. 17, 1766.
PERPENDICULAR FALL, 30 FEET; BREADTH NEAR 600 FEET.]
[H] The Dakotas, like the ancient Romans and Greeks, think the home of
the winds is in the caverns of the mountains, and their great
Thunder-bird resembles in many respects the Jupiter of the Romans and
the Zeus of the Greeks. The resemblance of the Dakota mythology to that
of the older Greeks and Romans is striking.
Two hundred white Winters and more
have fled from the face of the Summer
Since here by the cataract's roar,
in the moon of the red-blooming lilies,[71]
In the _tee_ of Ta-te-psin[I] was born
Winona--wild-rose of the prairies.
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