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then the wind and roughness of the lake became still more violent. 
Then again De-ka-nah-wi-deh said, You, the wind and the lake, be still, 
for we have not crossed over the lake yet. 
Then again the lake became calm. Then Hah-yonh-wa-tha began 
to paddle hard and the boat went so swift that when they reached the 
shore, it plowed deeply into the dry land on the shore bank. 
Then De-ka-nah-wi-deh said, We will now get out of the boat 
for we have now arrived at the place we anticipated. Then he got 
out and the other Lords followed him and they continued on their 
journey; and they had only gone a short distance when they beheld a 
man sitting on a high round knoll and when they arrived where he was 
sitting they stood all around him, and De-ka-nah-wi-deh stood directly 
in front of him. Then he spoke and said, We have now arrived, we 
representing the four Nations. You will therefore now answer the 
message which we have left here with you. These Lords who now 
stand all around you have now accepted the good tidings of Peace and 
Power, which signifies that now hereafter the shedding of human blood 
shall cease, for our Creator, the Great Spirit, never intended that man 
should engage in any such work of destruction of human life. There 
are many who have perished in the direction you are now facing, and 
these Lords have come to induce you to join them, so that the shedding 
of human blood might cease, and the good tidings of Peace and Power 
might prevail. 
Then the man (Tha-do-dah-ho) looked around and saw these men 
(the Lords) standing all around him, but he did not answer but kept 
silent. Then these Lords looked at his head while he was sitting on 
the ground and they saw his hair moving as if it were all alive and they 
saw that the movements of the hair greatly resembled serpents, and 
they looked at his hands and saw that his fingers were twisting and 
contorting continually in all directions and in all manner of shapes. And 
when they had become impatient because he would not answer the mes- 
sage, De-ka-nah-wi-deh told Hah-yonh-wa-tha, You shall now 
recross the lake and the Chief Warrior and De-ka-nah-wi-deh and Dyon- 
yonh- koh and our mother Ji-kon-sah-seh, shall accompany meu back 
in the boat (when you return here.) ) 
Then the man who was sitting on the ground smiled a little. 
Then Hah-yonh-wa-tha hurriedly went back and re-embarked in the 
boat and recrossed the lake and when he had come to shore on the other 
side of the lake, they asked what had occurred. Then Hah-yonh-wa-tha 
answered and said, It is not yet complete, I have therefore come after 
the Chief Warrior, De-ha-rih-ho-ken and Dyon-yonh-koh and our 
mother J eg a we And they answered him and said, She has now 
arrived. 
