502 IROQUOIAN COSMOLOGY [eth. ann. 43 



the place where lay the great rock. While going along he just picked 

 up the rock and laid it aside and then there he entered into the cave 

 and then drove thence the game animals. So now all came forth. 



So now De'hae°'hiyawa"kho°' spoke and said, "I myself, behold 

 this, completed your bodies. Verily it has not resulted in good that 

 you did not become wild. That caused what befell your bodies, 

 that it was possible that he could shut you in. So now I make an 

 order that so it shall be in the time which shall be wherein your 

 co-uterine kinships persist, as long as the earth shall continue here 

 you shall be wild then after this. So verUy, in turn, one will cus- 

 tomarily exert one's self to the utmost before one shall see you. 

 Ye will be free and it will be by your own exertions that ye shaU 

 continue to live." 



Now at this time they dispersed and all fled away. Now then he 

 shot a deer, and there in its body did the arrow become fixed, so 

 now he said, "Do thou rim; do thou go there to the place where is 

 the doorway of the old woman, my grandmother." 



Now verily it ran, and just there at the doorway, outside thereof, 

 there its body fell down, making a great noise; its hoofs made a great 

 noise. Verily the old woman heard it, so now she quickly arose and 

 she said, "Behold this, what kind of thing has come to pass?" Now 

 at that time she stood outside of the door and she looked and she 

 was surprised that there lay a dead deer, even with the arrow fixed 

 in its side. So then she said, "Listen, O'ha'a'; do thou look at a 

 thing so wonderful, for now a game animal has visited our lodge." 



Then O'ha'a' looked and he recognized the arrow which was fixed 

 in it as one belonging to his brother. Nothing did he say. So now 

 he returned into the lodge. And so his dear grandmother followed 

 him closety. 



Now again De'hae°'hiyawa"kho'" shot and his arrow became 

 fixed in the body of a raccoon. So now he said, "Do thou nm. Go 

 there to the place where stands the bark lodge of my clear ^^ grand- 

 mother." Now at that time it ran and its body fell just beside the 

 very doorway. 



Now again he shot another arrow and the arrow became fLxed in 

 the body of a buffalo; so now again he said, "Do thou rim. Go thei'e 

 to the place where stands the bark lodge of my dear grandmother." 

 And now it too ran and its body too fell beside the lodge where 

 his dear grandmother had her fire kindled. 



Now at that time again he shot another arrow, and the arrow in 

 its turn became fixed in the body of a bear; so now he said, 'Do thou 

 run. Go there to the place where stands the lodge of my dear grand- 

 mother." 



Now verily it ran, and its body fell there beside the doorway. 



See note on p. 609. 



