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Forth upon the Gitche Gumee, / On the shining Big-Sea-Water, / With his fishing-line of cedar, / Of the twisted bark of cedar, / Forth to catch the sturgeon Nahma, / Mishe-Nahma, King of Fishes, / In his birch canoe exulting / All alone went Hiawatha.
Through the clear, transparent water / He could see the fishes swimming / Far down in the depths below him; / See the yellow perch, the Sahwa, / Like a sunbeam in the water, / See the Shawgashee, the craw-fish, / Like a spider on the bottom, / On the white and sandy bottom.