_Katahdinauguoh_, said to mean mountains about Ktaadn.
fruit. (Rasles.) } for plural, _lac_ or _étang_, (Rasles). _Ouaürinaügamek_, } Nicholai.
_anse dans un lac_, (Rasles). _Mspame_, large water. } Polis. } _Sebago_ and _Sebec_, large open water.
_Chesuncook_, place where many streams empty in. } (_Vide_ Willis and Potter.) } } Tahmunt, _Caucomgomoc_, Gull Lake. (_Caucomgomoc_, the lake; } etc.
_Caucomgomoc-took_, the river, Polis.) } _Pammadumcook._ _Kenduskieg_, Little Eel River. (_Vide_ Willis.) Nicholai.
_Penobscot_, Rocky River. _Puapeskou_, stone. (Rasles } Ind’n of v. Springer.) } carry.
river, Polis.) } } _Millinocket_, place of islands. } Nicholai.
} _Souneunk_, that runs between mountains. } } _Aboljacarmegus_, Smooth-ledge Falls and Deadwater. } _Aboljacarmeguscook_, the river there.
_Muskiticook_, dead stream. (Indian of carry.) _Meskikou_, or _Meskikouikou_, a place where there is grass, (Rasles).
_Muskéeticook_, deadwater, (Polis).
} Nicholai.
_Piscataquis_, branch of river. } } _Naramekechus_, peetweet. } Polis.
} _Orignal_, Moosehead Lake. (Montresor.)
} _Adelungquamooktum_, wood thrush. } } _Bematruichtik_, high land generally. } Polis.
} _Maquoxigil_, bark of red osier, Indian tobacco. } _Kineo_, flint (Williamson; old Indian hunter). (Hodge.)
} _Beskabekukskishtuk_, the deadwater below the island. } } _Paytaytequick_, Burnt-Ground Stream, what Joe } called _Ragmuff_. } } _Nonlangyis_, the name of a deadwater between the } last and Pine Stream. } _Karsaootuk_, Black River (or Pine Stream). _Mkazéouighen_, } black, (Rasles). } } _Michigan, fimus._ Polis applied it to a sucker, or } (Rasles). (Pickering puts the? after the first word.) } } where trees have rotted. } } Polis.
(Rasles). } } } Deadwater, and applied to the mountains near. } } _Apmoojenegamook_, lake that is crossed. } } _Allegash_, hemlock bark. (_Vide_ Willis.) } Stream). } } } _Matungamooc_, Grand Lake. } } _Uncardnerheese_, Trout Stream. } } _Wassataquoik_ (or _-cook_), Salmon River, East Branch. } (_Vide_ Willis.) } } Polis.
nak_, a black fruit. Rasles.” Has it not here the plural } ending? } } white, larger than _penak_” (Rasles). } } _Paytgumkiss_, Petticoat (where a small river comes } into the Penobscot below Nicketow). } } _Burntibus_, a lake-like reach in the Penobscot. } _Passadumkeag_, “where the water falls into the Penobscot above the falls” (Williamson). _Paüsidaükioui_ is, _au dessus de la montagne_ (Rasles).
_Olarmon_, or _larmon_ (Polis), red paint. “Vermilion, paint, _Ouramaü_” (Rasles).
_Sunkhaze_, “See canoe come out; no see ’em stream” (Polis).
The mouth of a river, according to Rasles, is _Saüghedétegoue_.
The place where one stream empties into another, thus [Symbol] is _saüktaüoui_. (_Vide_ Willis.)
_Tomhegan_ Br. (at Moosehead). “_Hatchet_, _temahigan_” (Rasles).
fourche_” (Rasles).
2. From WILLIAM WILLIS, on the Language of the Abnaquies, Maine Hist. Coll., Vol. IV.
_Abalajako-megus_ (river near Ktaadn).
_Aitteon_ (name of a pond and sachem).
_Apmogenegamook_ (name of a lake).
_Allagash_ (a bark camp). Sockbasin, a Penobscot, told him, “The Indians gave this name to the lake from the fact of their _Bamonewengamock_, head of Allegash, Cross Lake. (Sockbasin.)
_Chesuncook_, Big Lake. (Sockbasin.)
_Ebeeme_, mountains that have plums on them. (Sockbasin).
_Ktaadn_. Sockbasin pronounces this Ka-tah-din, and said it meant “large mountain or large thing.”
_Kenduskeag_ (the place of eels).
_Kineo_ (flint), mountain on the border, etc.
_Metawamkeag_, a river with a smooth, gravelly bottom.
(Sockbasin.)
_Metanawcook._ _Millinoket_, a lake with many islands in it. (Sockbasin.)
_Matakeunk_ (river).
_Molunkus_ (river).
_Nicketow_, Neccotoh, where two streams meet (“Forks of the Penobscot”).
_Negas_ (Indian village on the Kenduskeag).
_Orignal_ (Montresor’s name for Moosehead Lake).
_Ponguongamook_, Allagash, name of a Mohawk Indian killed there. (Sockbasin.)
_Pougohwaken_ (Heron Lake).
_Pemadumcook_ (lake).
_Passadumkeag_, where water goes into the river above falls.
(Williamson.)
_Ripogenus_ (river).
_Sunkhaze_ (river), deadwater.
_Souneunk._ _Seboomook._ Sockbasin says this word means “the shape of a Moose’s head, and was given to the lake,” etc. Howard says differently.
_Seboois_, a brook, a small river. (Sockbasin.)
_Sebec_ (river).
_Sebago_ (great water).
_Telos_ (lake).
_Telasius_ (lake).
_Umbagog_ (lake), doubled up; so called from its form.
(Sockbasin.)
_Umbazookskus_ (lake).
_Wassatiquoik_, a mountain river. (Sockbasin.)
Judge C. E. Potter of Manchester, New Hampshire, adds in November, 1855:-- “_Chesuncook._ This is formed from _Chesunk_, or _Schunk_ (a goose), and _Auke_ (a place), and means ‘The Goose Place.’
Chesunk, or Schunk, is the sound made by the wild geese when flying.”
_Ktaadn._ This is doubtless a corruption of _kees_ (high), and _auke_ (a place).
_Penobscot_, _penapse_ (stone, rock place), and _auke_ (place).
_Suncook_, goose place, _Schunk-auke_.
The Judge says that _schoot_ means to rush, and hence _schoodic_ from this and _auke_ (a place where water rushes), and that _schoon_ means the same; and that the Marblehead people and others have derived the words “scoon” and “scoot” from the Indians, and hence “schooner”; refers to a Mr. Chute.
INDEX ABBOT (Me.), 97.
Aboljacarmegus Falls, 58, 82; meaning of the name, 157.
Aboljacarmegus, Lake, 51.
ALLEGASH AND EAST BRANCH, THE, 174-327.
Ambejijis Falls, 50; portage round, 52; 84.
Ambejijis Stream, 50.
America, the newness of, 90.
Apmoojenegamook Lake, 244; meaning of, 250; 260; a storm on, 263, 264; hard paddling on, 267.
Aroostook (Me.) road, 3, 13, 14; river, 4; wagon, an, 14; valley, 23; sleds of the, 261.
Asters, 97.
Atlas, the General, 95.
Batteaux, 6, 35.
Bears, abundance of, 235.
Bed, a cedar-twig, 60; of arbor-vitæ twigs, 265; the primitive, by all rivers, 317.
Birds, in the wilderness, 118; about Moosehead Lake, 186; about Mud Pond Carry, 237; near Chamberlain Lake, 240, 241; on Heron Lake, 255; on East Branch, 309.
Black flies, protection against, 236; 246.
Boston (Mass.), countrified minds in towns about, 24.
Bowlin Stream, 308.
Burnt Land, the, 29, 77.
“Burntibus,” 319.
Camp, loggers’, 20; reading matter in a, 37, 38; on side of Ktaadn, a, 68; the routine for making, 210-212; darkness about a, 303, 304.
Canoe, a birch, 106; used in third excursion to Maine Woods, 181; shipping water in a, 189; crossing lakes in a, 206; carrying a, 207, Carbuncle Mountain, 291.
Caribou Lake, 216.
Carry, Indian’s method with canoe at a, 207, 208; a wet, 235-244; berries at each, 305, 306; race at a, 314, 315.
Caucomgomoc Lake, meaning of the name, 156; 222, 223.
Caucomgomoc Mountain, 233.
Cedar tea, arbor-vitæ, or, 60.
Chaleur, Bay of, 178.
Chamberlain Farm, the, 245, 264, 265.
CHESUNCOOK, 93-173.
Chesuncook Deadwater, 217.
137; meaning of the word, 156; 176; going to church on, 214; 234, 250, 254.
Chivin, silvery roaches, cousin-trout, or, 59; 312.
Civilization and landscape, 171-173.
Cold Stream Pond, 9.
Colton’s Map of Maine, 104, 308.
Concord (Mass.), 1, 24, 76, 117; meaning of Indian name for, 157, 187; 214, 268; the Assabet in, 278.
Crosses in the wilderness, 50.
Curing moose meat and hide, 149, 150, 208.
Deep Cove, 45, 84.
Deer, 154.
“Die and be buried who will,” verse, 90.
Dippers, a brood of, 184.
Dog, a troublesome, 177.
Double Top Mountain, 49.
Dream of fishing, a, 61.
Eagle Lake, 101, 161; road, 261.
EAST BRANCH, THE ALLEGASH AND, 174-327.
Eel River, 256.
Elegy in a Country Churchyard, quoted, 19.
Enfield (Me.), 9.
Everlasting, the pearly, 97.
Fenwick, Bishop, 323.
Fire-weed, 95, 282.
Fishing, 58; the Caucomgomoc, 147.
Fowler, Thomas, sheltered and joined by, 29-34.
Freshet, the Great, 58.
Frontier houses, 144.
Fundy, Bay of, 254.
Goldenrod, 97.
Grand Falls of the Penobscot, 31; portage to avoid the, 32.
Grand Lake, 268; Indian name for, 295; 297, 307.
Grand Portage, the, 80.
Greenbush (Me.), 324.
Greenleaf’s Map of Maine, 16.
Hedgehog, shooting a, 130.
Heron Lake, 254, 255.
“Highlands” between the Penobscot and St. John, 238.
History, reading, 87.
Hodge, assistant geologist, quoted, 29, 80.
Holland, the King of, in his element, 239.
Horns, uses for deer’s, 97, 98.
Hornstone, 194.
Hunter, a “gentlemanly,” 178, 179; Indian, with hides, 231; enviable Hunting, the degradation of, 132-134.
Indian, extinction, 7; guides secured, 11; belief that river ran two ways, 35; words for some birds and animals, 108; camp, an, 146-159; language, 151; words for Maine waters, 155-157; houses at Oldtown, 161; relics, 166; speech, 187; singing, 198; methods of guiding, 204-206; manner of carrying canoes, 207, 208; inscription, an, 220; wardrobe, 249, 250; failure to understand avoidance of settlers, 258; medicines, 259; travel, 260, 261; as umpire, 267; skill in retracing steps, 277; relics and geographical names, 297; good manners, 300; devil (or cougar), the, 306; reticence and talkativeness, 318, 319; Insect foes, 246.
Jackson, Dr. Charles T., 4, 10; quoted regarding altitude of Ktaadn, 72; on Moosehead Lake, 104; sketches in Reports of, 120; quoted, regarding hornstone on Mount Kineo, 194, 195.
Joe Merry Lakes, the, 45.
Joe Merry Mountain, 38, 51, 218.
Josselyn, John, quoted, 156, 164.
Katepskonegan Falls, 52; Carry, 81.
Katepskonegan Lake, 50, 57.
Katepskonegan Stream, 50.
Kenduskeag, meaning of, 156.
Kineo, Mount, 9-103, 156, 183, 186, 189; Indian tradition of origin Knife, an Indian, 156.
KTAADN, 3-90.
Ktaadn, Mt., 1; ascents of, 3-5; view of, 23; first view of, 36; 38; the flat summit of, 49; 58, 61; the ascent of, 63-76; altitude of, 72; Lake country of New England, the, 40.
Larch, extensive wood of, 231.
Lescarbot quoted regarding abundance of fishes, 60.
Lily, the yellow, 209, 291; roots, gathering, 309; roots, soup of, 317.
Lily Bay, 97, 99.
Little Schoodic River, the, 23.
Lobster Lake, 106.
Lobster Pond, 210.
Lobster Stream, 105, 210.
Locusts, 254.
Loggers, camps of, 20; a gang of, 38.
Log house, a, 138.
Logs, from woods to market, sending, 46-49.
Loon, Indian word for, 182; cry of the, 247, 248.
Lost, in the lakes, experienced woodmen, 41; in the woods, T.’s companion, 285-290.
Madawaska, the, 80.
Maine, mountainous region of, 4; intelligence of backwoodsmen in, 24; view of, 73; the forest of, 88.
Map of the Public Lands of Maine and Massachusetts, 17, 101, 104, 308.
Marriage, a sign of, 232.
Mars’ Hill, 8.
Matahumkeag, 107; meaning of the word, 157; 210.
Matanancook River, the, 321.
Mattaseunk, 18.
Mattawamkeag, the, 12, 13, 16; meaning of the name, 157; 256.
Matungamook Lake, 295.
McCauslin, or “Uncle George,” weather-bound at farm of, 23-29; good services as guide by, 40-42.
Michaux on lumbering, quoted, 48.
Milford (Me.), 7.
Ministers, with, on Ktaadn, 214.
Mohawk Rips, the, 322.
Mohawk traditions, 154.
Molasses, Molly, 174.
Molunkus (Me.), 13, 15.
Monhegan Island, 94.
Moose, sign of, 58, 65, 108; carcass of a, 109; night expedition in vain hunt for, 110-115; shooting at and wounding a, 122-124; found, measured, and skinned, 125-130; Indian ideas about, 153; Indian tradition of evolution of, from the whale, 163; shooting and skinning a, on Second Lake, 292-295.
Moose-flies, 246.
272, 299, 322.
Moosehorn Deadwater, 109.
Moose River, 189.
Moose wardens, laxness of, 231.
Moose-wood, 65; phosphorescent light in, 199.
Morrison, John, head of a lumber-gang, 38.
Mountain-ash, 94.
Mountain-tops, 71.
Musquash, calling a, 228.
Nahant (Mass.), 170.
Nature, the earth as made by, 77, 78; always young, 89, 90; the coarse use of, 133.
Neptune, Louis, 10, 86; a call on Governor, 162, 163; the old chief, 174.
Night, in the woods, a, 43-45; thoughts by a stream at, 131; sounds in the woods at, 247, 248.
Noliseemack, Shad Pond or, 29.
North Twin Lake, 39, 80, 84.
Oak Hall hand-bill and carry, 55, 83.
Olamon Mountains, 323.
Olamon River, the, and meaning of word, 324.
Old Fort Hill, 166.
Orchis, the great round-leaved, 240.
Orono (Me.), 92.
Osier, red, Indian word for, 188.
Paddling, a lesson in, 325, 326.
Pamadumcook Lakes, the, 30, 45, 47, 84; meaning of the word, 156; 260.
Passamagamet Lake, 50, 51.
Passamagamet Stream, 50, 51.
Passamaquoddy River, the, 5, 91.
Peaked Mountain, 254.
Peetweets, Indian word for, 182.
Penobscot County, 73.
Penobscot Indians, sociability of, 321.
Penobscot River, the, 3, 5, 6; Indian islands in the, 7; 17, 18, 24, between Moosehead and Chesuncook Lake, described, 117; 145, 148; Phosphorescent wood, 199-201.
Pine, the white, 160; forests, 169; red, 268; Labrador and red, 296.
Pine Stream Deadwater, 121.
Pine Stream Falls, 136, 216.
Piscataquis Falls, 322.
Piscataquis River, the, 101; meaning of the word, 157; 179, 260, 327.
Pitching a canoe, 105.
Plants, abundance of strange, by Moosehead Lake, 103, 104, 188; observed on Mount Kineo, 195; about camp on the Caucomgomoc, 223; along the Umbazookskus, 229, 230; in cedar swamp by Chamberlain Lake, 239-241; on East Branch, 302.
Pockwockomus Lake, 50.
Pokelogan, a, 56.
Polis, Joe, 174; secured as guide, 175; puzzled about white men’s law, 192; travels and opinions of, 217, 218; calls upon Daniel Webster, 279; as a boy, hard experience in traveling of, 308; good-by to, 327.
Politicians, country, 8, 9.
Pongoquahem Lake, 260.
Portage, a rough, 33; round Ambejijis Falls, 51.
Province man, a green, 16.
Quebec, meaning of the word, 157; 257.
Rain, 33, 265, 266.
Rapids, shooting, 81.
Rasles, Father, Dictionary of the Abenaki language, 154.
Red shirts, 31, 145.
Restigouche River, the, 178.
Ripogenus Portage, 80.
Roaches, silvery, 59.
Road, a supply, 212; recipe for making a, 244.
Rock-Ebeeme, 20.
Rock hills, singular, 282.
Roots of spruce, as thread, 225, 226.
Russell Stream, 104.
St. Francis Indian, 146, 208.
St. Lawrence River, the, 80, 233, 238.
Salmon River, 19.
Schoodic Lake, 256.
School question, the, among Indians, 323, 324.
Shad Pond, or Noliseemack, 29, 30, 86.
Shad-flies, ephemeræ or, 255.
Sheldrakes, Indian word for, 182; 254, 274, 276.
Singing, 41, 42.
Smith, Ansell, clearing and settlement of, 137-145.
Snowberry, creeping, used as tea, 227.
Souneunk Mountains, the, 218, 260.
South Twin Lake, 39.
Sowadnehunk Deadwater, 58.
Sowadnehunk River, the, 31, 79.
Spencer Bay Mountain, 183.
Spencer Mountains, 108.
“Spokelogan,” 268.
Spring, a cool, 280.
Springer, J. S., Forest Life, quoted, 21, note; on lumbering, quoted, 48, note; on the spruce tree, quoted, 75; about the digging of a canal, quoted, 270, 271.
Spruce, the, 104; Indian words for black and white, 209; difference between black and white, 225.
Spruce beer, a draught of, 30.
Squaw Mountain, 183.
Squirrel, the red, 241.
Stars known to Indian, 247.
Stillwater (Me.), 4, 167.
Sugar Island, 101, 183, 194; near Olamon River, 324.
“Swampers,” 242.
“Sweet cakes,” 12.
Tea, varieties of forest, 227; hemlock, 312.
Telasinis Lake, 267.
299.
Tent, description of, 196, 197.
Thistle, the Canada, 96.
Thoreau, Henry David, leaves Concord for Maine, 31 Aug. 1846, 3; starts “up river” from Bangor, 4; strikes into the wilderness, 15; starts for summit of Ktaadn, 61, 62; begins descent, 72; leaves Boston by steamer for Bangor, 13 Sept. 1853, 93; takes Moosehead Lake steamer for return home, 159; starts on third excursion to Maine Woods, 20 July, 1857, 174; reaches farthest northern point, 259; lands at Oldtown, the journey finished, 326.
Thrush, wood, Indian word for, 186.
Timber, 18; land, best in Maine, 235.
Tomhegan Stream, 203.
Traps, a find of steel, 302.
Tree, fall of a, at night, 115; a dangerous, 221.
Trees, varieties of, 22, 116; along the Penobscot, 107, 120; about camp on the Caucomgomoc, 223; along the Umbazookskus, 231; on island in Heron Lake, farthest northern point, 259; on East Branch, 302.
Tree-tops, a walk over, 67; appearance of various, 121.
Trout, true and cousin-, 59.
Trout Stream, 235, 269; Indian name for, 295.
Umbazookskus, the, 219, 222; Much Meadow River, 229; 230, 232.
Umbazookskus Lake, 233, 238.
Usnea lichen, Indian word for, 186.
Voyageurs, Canadian, 6.
Waite’s farm, 23.
“Warping up,” 57.
Washing in a lake, 249.
Wassataquoik River, the, 3, 312.
Water-troughs, 97.
Webster, Daniel, Joe Polis’s call upon, 279.
Webster Pond, 270, 273; Indian name for, 273.
300.
Whetstone Falls, 313.
White Mountains, the, 4.
Whitehead Island, 94.
Woods, wetness of the, 22; characteristics of Maine, and uses of all, 167-173; destruction of the, 252-254.
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