WUCHOUSEN, the great wind eagle, a mythological character, universally believed in by the numerous tribes of Algonquin Indians. Of him many fabulous stories are told. Ac cot ding to the Passamaquoddy legend, in which he is called The-Bird-who-Blows-the-Winds, Wuchousen lives far in the north, on a huge rock whose top reaches up into the region of the cloudland, at the very end of the sky. When he flaps his wings the winds blow over all the earth and all the cloudland. In the olden days ‘Vuchousen was so fond of blowing, of flapping the wind with his monster wings, that men could not live in peace, for the fear of the tempest was ever upon them. So terrible were these tempests that even KulOe kap, the Master of Men and Beasts, was often afraid to venture out upon the sea to fish as was his pleasure. At last he made up his mind to brmg the wind eagle to time and make the earth safer for all. So be made a long journey into the far northland, on the very outer border of the world. There he found Wuchousen flapping his mighty wings and screeching louder than the howling tern pest he was winging up. Kulliskap protested against this, representing to the wind eagle that he had already made the world uninhabit able and requested him to modify his tempest making. To this Wuchousen replied that since
time began he had blown always in this way. that his wings needed exercise and that he proposed to go on flapping them no matter what happened to the rest of creation. In a rage, Kuliisltap, changing himself into a monstrous giant, higher than the clouds, seized the wind eagle and, tying his wings together, cast him down from his high cliff into the sea thousands of feet below. Unable to move, the eagle exercised all his magic power and made the waters so putrid that they poisoned all the streams and the rain that fell from the clouds, so that Kuloskap was forced to release him, for being a spirit, he could not loll him. But that he might not again incommode and en danger the world, he left one of his wings tied, when he replaced him on top of his high cliff. Since that time, in the long Past, uchousen has been able to raise a wind only half so strong as he used to; and though he often raises a tempest, yet, flapping only one v.ing, he soon grows tired and then the tem test subsides.