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me for all the ill-treatment I have given you, because I have now been 
satisfied that you told me the truth, when you told me that you did not 
know how you got the child which you are going to deliver. Then the 
daughter also was made glad, and when she was delivered of the child 
it was as had been predicted, the child was a male child, and the grand- 
mother called him De-ka-nah-wi-deh, and the child grew up rapidly, 
and when he was become a young man he said, The time has come 
when I should begin to perform my duty in this world. I will therefore 
begin to build my canoe, and by to-morrow I must have it done because 
there is something for me to do to-morrow, when I will go away and go 
Eastward. 
Then he began to build his canoe out of a white rock, and when he 
had completed it De-ka-nah-wi-deh said, I am ready now to go away 
from home and I will tell you that there is a tree on top of the hill and 
you shall have that for a sign whenever you want to find out whether I 
shall be living or dead. You will take an axe and chop the tree and if 
the tree flows blood from the cut, you will thereby know that I am 
beheaded and killed, but if you find no blood running from this tree 
after you have chopped a chip from it, then you may know that my 
mission was successful. 
The reason that this will happen is because I came to stop the 
shedding of blood among human beings. 
Then De-ka-nah-wi-deh said, You come to the edge of the lake and 
see me start off. 
Then his mother and grandmother went together with him and 
helped to pull the boat to the lake and when they came to the lake, 
then De-ka-nah-wi-deh said, Good bye for I am going to leave you for 
I am gone for good, when I come back I will not come this way. Then 
the grandmother said, How are you going to travel, because your 
canoe is made out of stone. It will not float. 
Then De-ka-nah-wi-deh said, This will be the first sign of wonder 
that man will behold. That canoe made out of stone or rock will float. 
Then he bade them good bye and put his canoe in the lake and got 
in. Then he paddled away and went Eastward, and the grandmother 
and his mother beheld him and saw that his canoe was going swiftly, 
and in a few moments he disappeared out of their sight. And it happened 
at that time that a party of hunters had a camp on the South side of the 
lake now know as Ontario and one of them went towards the lake and 
stood on the bank of the said lake, and beheld some object coming 
towards him at a distance, and the man could not understand what it 
was that was approaching him. Shortly afterwards he understood that 
it was a Canoe, and saw a man in it, and the moving object was coming 
directly towards where he stood, and when the man (it was De-ka-nah- 
Sec. II., 1911. 14. 
