es, and was not descended from a line of chiefs,
distinguished by their wisdom or valour. What was to be done? The
lovers talked the matter over and over again, and finally determined
to apply to Moshup, for his aid and advice. They forthwith repaired to
the usual residence of the goblin. It was a most auspicious moment;
they found him in a delirium of joy. A school of whales, in a recent
dark night, becoming bewildered, had foundered upon a neighbouring
ledge of rocks, and a great many fine calves had been deposited at the
mouth of his cave as his share. Withal a brother goblin, residing
somewhere upon the main land, had sent him some excellent old tobacco;
and these, with the occurrence at the happy moment of other enlivening
circumstances, had wrought him up to such unusual good temper that he
quite forgot his very recent determination to annoy all lovers, and
promised to befriend the hapless pair. He rose from his seat, put a
few hundred pounds of tobacco in his pouch, took a half-roasted
grampus from the coals to pick by the way, and set off for
Sanchequintacket, the place of Hiwassee's residence: the young warrior
perched upon his shoulder, and the maiden, reposing on a litter formed
by his arm, lay horizontally on his breast.

Moshup was no devil with wings, but he had two legs, and could use
them to much advantage. So he set off at a pretty smart trot, and was
very soon at the end of his journey. He found the Grand Sachem busy at
a feast, but this did not prevent him from telling his errand at once.
With great calmness and in perfect silence, for he was not in one of
his talkative fits, he heard the maiden's father give his reasons for
refusing his daughter to the lover. They were those which have been a
thousand times urged before--"Poverty--poverty--low parentage--low
parentage; not sufficiently known--not sufficiently celebrated."

"Is this all you have to say against the young man, you old fool?"
asked Moshup. "What do you want? What must the young man have?"

"He must have a great deal of land--he must have an island," answered
Hiwassee.

"Good," said Moshup, drawing a huge quantity of smoke into his mouth,
and blowing it out through his nose: "follow me!"

At the time whereof I speak, the island of Nope extended to and
comprehended the little island of Tuckanuck. The little island was
then a part of the larger island; but once upon a time there came a
great storm, the winds raged and the thunders roll