"It sounds like the song of a mosquito, and
one might forget while he listens that this is
not midsummer," said one.
"I hear also the medicine-man's single drum-
beat," suggested another.
"There is a tradition," remarked Anookasan,
that many years ago a party of hunters went
up the river on a scout like this of ours. They
never returned. Afterward, in the summer,
their bones were found near the home of a
strange creature, said to be a little man, but
he had hair all over him. The Isantees call
him Chanotedah. Our old men give him the
name Oglugechana. This singular being is
said to be no larger than a new-born babe. He
speaks an unknown tongue.
"The home of Oglugechana is usually a hol-
low stump, around which all of the nearest trees
are felled by lightning. There is an open spot
in the deep woods wherever he dwells. His
weapons are the plumes of various birds. Great
numbers of these variegated feathers are to be
found in the deserted lodge of the little man.
"It is told by the old men that Oglugechana
has a weird music by which he sometimes be-
witches lone travelers.
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