At the last whiff of his pipe his head went into a great cloud, and the whole surface of the rock for several miles was melted and glazed; two great ovens were opened beneath, and two women (guardian spirits of the place) entered them in a blaze of fire; and they are heard there yet (Tso-mec-cos-tee aud Tso-me-cos-te-won-dee), answering to the invocations of the high-priests or medicine-men, who consult them when they are visitors to this sacred place." Hark you, Bear! you are a coward.
This anecdote is from Heckewelder.

In his account of the Indian Nations, he describes an Indian hunter as addressing a bear in nearly these words.

"I was present," he says, "at the delivery of this curious invective; when the hunter had despatched the bear, I asked him how he thought that poor animal could understand what he said to it.

'O,' said he in answer, 'the bear understood me very well; did you not observe how ashamed he looked while I was upbraiding him ?"'-- Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol.

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