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whom we have been wont to look. Yea, therefore, in tears let us 
smoke together. 
10. “Now, then, we say, we wipe away the tears, so that in 
peace you may look about you. 
11. ‘And, further, we suppose there is an obstruction in your 
ears. Now, then, we remove the obstruction carefully from your 
hearing, so that we trust you will easily hear the words spoken. 
12. “And also we imagine there is an obstruction in your 
throat. Now, therefore, we say, we remove the obstruction, so 
that you may speak freely in our mutual greetings. 
13. “Now again another thing, my offspring. I have spoken 
of the solemn event which has befallen you. Every day you are 
losing your great men. They are being borne into the earth; also 
the warriors and also your women, and also your grandchildren; 
so that in the midst of blood you are sitting. 
14. “Now, therefore, we say, we wash off the blood marks 
from your seat, so that it may be for a time that happily the place 
will be clean where you are seated and looking around you.” 
15. Now the Hymn, called “Hail”. 
I come to greet and thank my uncles. 
I come again to greet and thank the league; 
I come again to greet and thank the kindred; 
I come again to greet and thank the Warriors; 
I come again to greet and thank the women; 
My forefathers—what they established ,— 
My forefathers,—hearken to them. 
16. The last verse is sung yet again, while he walks to and 
fro in the house, and says: 
17. “Hail my grandsires! Now hearken while your grand- 
children cry mournfully to you—because the Great League which 
you established has grown old. We hope that they may hear. 
18. “Hail my grandsires! You have said that sad will be the 
fate of those who come in the latter times. 
19. “Oh, my grandsires! Even now I may have failed to 
perform this ceremony in the order in which they were wont to 
perform it.”’ 
20. “Oh, my grandsires! Even now that has become old 
which you established,—the Great League. You have it as a 
pillow under your heads in the ground where you are lying,—this 
Great League which you established; although you said that far 
away in the future the Great League would endure.” 
