not to be wooed like other maidens, and obtained from him, to whom her
voice was sweeter than the notes of the mocking-bird, his consent to
her scheme.

The conditions on which Leelinau consented to follow a husband to his
lodge were soon known. Only him would she acknowledge for her lord,
who should guide his canoe in safety from the head of the Falls of
the Yaupáae to the little islands below. The old men shook their heads
when they heard the terms, and the squaws said, her heart must be made
of stone, but the young men felt warm, and thought of trying their
fortunes.

The enterprise was more difficult than any Manabozho had undertaken.
When the river was low, it poured almost perpendicularly down, a
height of twenty feet, on rocks, thrusting sharp points into the air,
then bounded in sinuous windings through rifts and basins, made by the
constant beating of the water, and the attrition of stones, whirled
round in the cavities, to dash over a declivity of yet other rocks,
before it reached its calm welcome below. When swollen by rains the
rocks were all hidden, the perpendicular fall disappeared, it was as
if the Great Salt Lake were pouring down the side of the mountain,
and from top to bottom was all one vast mass of foam, lashing the
huge rock at the throat, around which the torrent turned with a sudden
bend. No canoe could live on such a cataract. It must be overturned
and engulfed long before reaching the bottom, or if those perils were,
by any wonderful chance, escaped, inevitable destruction awaited the
presumptuous adventurer, dashed against the rock at the bottom.

The lovers of Leelinau gazed at the Fall, but the more they considered
the less inclination they felt to encounter the danger. In a low stage