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    Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 08 : on the Pacific Slope
    Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 08 : on the Pacific Slope
    Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 08 : on the Pacific Slope
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    Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 08 : on the Pacific Slope

    By Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 08 - Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of On The Pacific Slope, by Charles M. Skinner

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: On The Pacific Slope Myths And Legends Of Our Own Land, Volume 8.

      Author: Charles M. Skinner

      Release Date: December 14, 2004 [EBook #6613]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE ***

      Produced by David Widger

      MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF OUR OWN LAND

                                         By

                                 Charles M. Skinner

      Vol. 8.

      ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE

      CONTENTS:

      The Voyager of the Whulge

      Tamanous of Tacoma

      The Devil and the Dalles

      Cascades of the Columbia

      The Death of Umatilla

      Hunger Valley

      The Wrath of Manitou

      The Spook of Misery Hill

      The Queen of Death Valley

      Bridal Veil Fall

      The Governor's Right Eye

      The Prisoner in American Shaft

      ON THE PACIFIC COAST

      THE VOYAGER OF WHULGE

      Like the ancient Greeks, the Siwash of the Northwest invest the unseen world with spiritual intelligence. Every tree has a soul; the forests were peopled with good and evil genii, the latter receiving oblation at the devil-dances, for it was not worth while to appease those already good; and the mountains are the home of tamanouses, or guardian spirits, that sometimes fight together—as, when the spirits of Mount Tacoma engaged with those of Mount Hood, fire and melted stone burst from their peaks, their bellowing was heard afar, and some of the rocks flung by Tacoma fell short, blocking the Columbia about the Dalles.

      Across these fantastic reports of older time there come echoes of a later instruction, adapted and blended into native legend so that the point of division cannot be indicated. Such is that of the mysterious voyager of the Whulge—the Siwash name for the sound that takes the name of Puget from one of Vancouver's officers. Across this body of water the stranger came in a copper canoe that borrowed the glories of the morning. When he had landed and sent for all the red men, far and near, he addressed to them a doctrine that provoked expressions of contempt—a doctrine of love.

      To fight and steal no more, to give of their goods to men in need, to forgive their enemies,—they could not understand such things. He promised—this radiant stranger—to those who lived right, eternal life on seas and hills more fair than these of earth, but they did not heed him. At last, wearying of his talk, they dragged him to a tree and nailed him

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