198 THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
The place mentioned as the birth-place of De-ka-nah-wi-deh, was 
called Ka-ha-nah-yenh, somewhere in the neighbourhood of the Bay of 
Quinte. 
According to tradition a woman was living in that neighbourhood 
who had one daughter, who had a stainless character and who did not 
travel away from home but remained with her mother constantly, and 
when she had attained the age of womanhood she held no manner of 
intercourse with man, but in course of time she showed signs of con- 
ception, and her mother was very much aggrieved and in course of time 
the mother spoke to her daughter and said, I am going to ask you a 
question and I want you to tell me the truth. What has happened to 
you, and how is it that you are going to bear a child? 
Then the daughter replied and said, Mother I will tell you the 
truth, I do not know how I got the child. 
Then the mother said, The reply you give me is not sufficient to 
remove my grief, I am sure that you did not tell me the truth concerning 
what I asked you. Then the daughter said, I have told you the 
truth concerning what you asked me. Then the mother said, Of a 
truth you have no love for me. 
Then she began to ill-treat her daughter, and the daughter also began 
to feel grieved because of the ill-treatment she got from her mother, and 
it so happened that as the time approached when the daughter would 
deliver the child, the mother dreamed that she saw a man whom 
she did not know, and he said that he appeared as a Messenger to her 
on account of her troubled mind, caused by the condition of her daughter, 
who had in so mysterious a manner conceived a child. I am here to 
deliver to you a message and now I will ask you to cease your 
grieving and trouble of mind, and ill-treatment of your daughter 
from day to day as it is a fact that your daughter does not know 
how she got that child which she is going to deliver. I will tell you 
what has happened. 
It is the wish of the Great Spirit that she should bear a child and 
when you will see the male child you shall call him De-ka-nah-wi-deh. 
The reason you shall give him that name is because this child will 
reveal the good tidings of Peace and Power from Heaven, and shall rule 
and govern on earth, and I will further inform you that you and your 
daughter should be kind to him because he has an important office to 
perform in the world, and when he grows up to be a man do not prevent 
him from leaving home. And then the old woman asked the Messenger, 
What office is the child going to hold? The Messenger answered and 
said, His office is for peace and life to the people both on earth and in 
Heaven. And when the old woman woke up the next morning she 
then spoke to her daughter and said, My daughter I ask you to pardon 
