Then, when they go to it, they rejoice. Then they reach Partridge
Island. Now long ago, beavers were terrible animals. Kuloskap, although
good of heart, does not love them at all, since, long ago, Young Beaver,
the daughter of Old Beaver, made Wolf kill his (Kuloskap's) brother.
Even to-day his (Beaver's) enormous bones are to be found at Cape
Breton. Sometimes their teeth are six inches long. Such beavers do not
live now-a-days. These built the dam across at Cape Blomidon; they are
those found in the river bed at Annapolis.
Kuloskap wanted to have a hunt and he wished to make it equal to the
whalefishing of long ago of Kitpuseogunow. So he cuts open the dam near
the shore. He instructs Sable to watch (or to wait) for them. He thinks
Young Beaver is hiding there. He bursts the dam near the shore. The
waters rush through violently. It swings around to the west. Still it is
not yet broken on the farther shore. The end lodged; it was split; where
the floods are free, they can see it even to-day.
This in Micmac is called "Blegan;" in Passamaquoddy "Pliheegun," which
means "he missed fire." He hurls a rock at the young one, so as to try
to frighten him; he throws some clods of earth; it sticks in the mouth
of the St. John's River near St. Johns. All the Wabanaki call it
Partridge Island. There is a pond left in the basin at Minas.
Kuloskap drives away the young one; he picks up a salt water rock and
throws it, seeking to hit him; it sticks fast by Ne(k)wutkook. It is
still there right in the middle of the St. John's River.