252 OVER ON THE ISLAND

There is an inlet near West Point now rather generally ﬁlled in, but once upon a time, according to report, Wolfe with his army journeyed up through it on his way to Quebec, and then stopped later at Cape Wolfe. Hence the name, Wolfe Inlet. Here, in the old days, this inlet was almost encircled by pine forests with tangled undergrowth.

Here, the Micmacs believed, Thunder came down from the clouds, in the form of a black bear, to ﬁsh in the water as a pastime. One day an Indian maiden, gathering berries, pushed her way through the under- brush and came upon the inlet, not seeing the black bear who lay under a pine tree near by. Thunder was entranced with her beauty. Changing himself into an Indian brave, he plucked a Mayﬂower and threw it at her—the Micmac way of asking her to be his wife; and once he had her in his arms he ﬂoated up to his home in the clouds. There she lived very happily until she fell in love with Morning Star; and Thunder, in his jealousy, sent her hurtling down to earth. She fell into the shallow inlet where he had found her; and her blood, spattering over the rocks, stained them red. And so they remain to this day.

Near by is Hebron and the Landing Bridge. Early settlers came up this river and landed at the bridge. One settler went further up and built a mill. From it lumber was sent to England in exchange for food com- modities. Still, the government owns one-half acre of land around it.

A custom still preserved in several rural communities is the bonﬁre. In Milburn, for instance, in a small clearing on the edge of the forest, farmers gather nightly around a bonﬁre during the long summer