Show death drums roll in honor of indian brave the death drums of the iroquois rumble over lake cayuga and seneca in the heart of the region that once was the stronghold of the fiercest of eastern tribesmen out of the dim past out of the aig warns out of the forests primeval neval before the coming of the white man came the legend giving the name by which the unexplained phenomenon Is known to this day the sounds not imagined but real come in series separated by irregular intervals only on oil calm days at a time of air stagnation or in the dead of night nigh about this time of the year the explained the weird reverberations verbe rations in this legend once there was a seneca brave straight as an arrow the great aga yettah fierce in battle kind in peace calm at the council fire one day near seneca castle now geneva whither the trail of a bear had led him rested and took shelter from an approaching storm lightning the arrow of the great hunter struck down tree find and man alike hurling both into the water of seneca take lake they floated out upon the surface and not until the sun went down did they disappear and since that time the death drums sound as explained in the legend so that the would never forget great in battle but geologists no believers in the supernatural offer several theories in explanation of the reverberations one Is that the booming results from fault movements rock beds nt at or under the lake bottom slipping ng past or over each other others suggest that the sound results from the rise of bubbles of gas originating in the depths of the lake and bursting ton reaching the top old seneca Is a lake of eccentricities it Is credited with being the deepest body of water wholly within the united states with the single exception of lake michigan only four our times in the memory of white men has it frozen aver over at feet down it maintains a uniform temperature of 7 degrees above freezing frogs and are almost unknown it lins has been called the most treacherous lake in america with a sout wind the lake will change from a misleading calm to tau itu angry rough roughness nesa in ten minutes waves sometimes roll higher than a house sometimes de spite its expanse thirty six miles la length and from two to five miles in width it rises or drops as much as two feet within a few hours |