Kwa´sind

the strongest man that ever lived, the Herculês of the North America Indians. He could pull up cedars and pines by the roots, and to huge rocks about like playthings. His wondrous strength was “seated in his crown,” and there of course lay his point of weakne , but the only weapon which could injure him was the “blue cone of the fir tree,” a secret known only to the pygmies or Little-folk. This mischievous race, out of jealousy, determined to kill the strong man, and one day, finding him asleep in a boat, pelted him with fir cones till he died; and now, whenever the tempest rages through the forests, and the branches of the trees creak and groan and split, they say “Kwasind is gathering in his firewood.” Dear, too, unto Hiawatha Was the very strong man Kwasind; He the strongest of all mortals. Long fellow, Hiawatha , vi. and xviii.