230 THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
nature of question or business may come before you, no matter how 
sharp or aggravating it may be it will not penetrate your skins, but you 
will forbear with great patience and good will in all your deliberations 
and never disgrace yourselves by becoming angry. You Lords shall 
always be guided in all your councils and deliberations by the good 
tidings of Peace and Power. 
Then De-ka-nah-wi-deh said, Now you Lords of the different 
Nations of the Confederacy I charge you to cultivate the good feeling 
of friendship, love and honour amongst yourselves, and I have now 
fulfilled my duty in assisting you in the establishment and organization 
of this Great Confederacy, and this Confederation if carefully guarded 
shall continue and last from generation to generation and as long as the 
sun will continue to shine, the grass grow and waters run. I shall 
now therefore go home, conceal, and cover myself with bark, and there 
shall be no successor to my title and no man in the future shall be called 
by my name. 
Then De-ka-nah-wi-deh further continued and said, If at any 
time through the negligence and carelessness of the Lords, they fail to 
carry out the principles of the good tidings of Peace and Power and 
the rules and regulations of the Confederacy and the people are reduced 
to poverty and great suffering, then I will return. 
Then De-ka-nah-wi-deh said, And it shall so happen that when 
you hear my name mentioned disrespectfully without reason or just 
cause, but spoken in levity, you shall then know that you are on the 
verge of trouble and sorrow. 
Then he (De-ka-nah-wi-deh) said, And it shall be that the only 
time that it shall be proper that my name shall be mentioned is when 
the Condolence Ceremonies are being performed or when the good tidings 
of Peace and Power which I have established and organized are being 
discussed or rehearsed. 
Then the Lords (Ro-de-ya-ner-sonh) said, We shall begin to work 
and carry out the instructions which he (De-ka-nah-wi-deh) has laid 
before us. 
Then they said, We shall therefore begin first with the Con- 
federate Council of the Five Nations; and other Nations who shall 
accept and come under the Constitution of the Confederacy will 
become as props in support of the said Confederacy, and they then 
said, The pure white Wampum Strings shall be the token or emblem 
of the Council fire, and it shall be that when the Fire Keepers shall open 
the Council he shall pick up this string of Wampum and hold it in his 
hand while he is offering thanksgiving to the Great Spirit and opening 
the Council. And they then also said, While the Council is in ses- 
sion the strings of the White Wampum shall be placed conspicuously 
