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and three Indians, emerging from the woods, and motioning for persons 

 to bring canoes across to them. 



One of the women recognizes the voice of her husband, Tawaragat, 

 who has been absent for a long time acting as guide in the South. With 

 two of her sisters she jtunps into a canoe to comply with his demands, 

 and the party is brought over to the village. One of the white men 

 proves to be Conrad Weiser (the official interpreter for the Province of 

 Pennsylvania and the agent for both the Iroquois and the whites), who 



Fig. 52. — Some of the girls who took part in the play in costumes that they made after 



Iroquois patterns and designs 



finds in the old warrior, Teyorongkeh, and the arrow maker, Dyonwadon, 

 friendly Indians who had known him formerly at Schoharie, New York. 

 These men cordially greet the others, Stoeffel Stump, the white companion, 

 Owisgera, an Onondaga Indian guide, and Shikelimo, an Oneida Indian. 

 The latter is already known to the village group as a viceroy who has been 

 sent to eastern Pennsylvania by the Onondaga Council, and as a member 

 by marriage of their own Cayuga nation though not of their Wolf clan. 

 (This Shikelimo was the father of the famous Logan whose wonderful 

 speeches to Lord Dunmore excited the admiration of Thomas Jefferson. 

 The latter quoted them, and therefore they have been preserved in print.) 



