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that, still again, I will come again at some futm-e day, that will be 

 provided that, if it so be, that I will pass through that ordeal in 

 peace, and that still, it may be, that I will again be fortunate in that 

 I will control all things; for, indeed, my brother by all means will 

 attempt now to give himself the control of the whole of my handi- 

 work." Now at that time he again departed for home. 



Then Odendonniha set on foot all the instructions of De'hac°'hiya- 

 wa"kho°'. So then all persons prized the matter, that they severally 

 traveled about in peace from place to place. And when that on 

 which they lived grew up anew, then they began to assemble them- 

 selves together; and then the ceremony started in accordance with 

 the orders of De'hae'"hiyawa,"kho°'. When they were all assembled, 

 even to the least infant, then Odendonniha stood up and spoke, 

 saying, "Now, then, we shall bring forward the Ceremony which he 

 has ordained for us. He said, verily, that now people shall continue 

 to assemble; and so at this time of day, and also this number of people 

 of us, who are kin severally, have had our minds brought together 

 into one place. Now, then, we make rulable preparations and we 

 do it with one mind. We ourselves, then, will begin; we now greet 

 one another repeatedly with thanksgiving that so many of us have 

 assembled in this certain place. Now, then, with one voice we now 

 direct our words to the place where lies that on which we live. Now, 

 then, we will begin; we will now make rulable preparations for her 

 person, our Grandmother, this Earth here present, whereon we 

 travel about from place to place; for that she will care for all those 

 things which He who finished our bodies has completed ; so then that 

 is the reason that we are greeting her with thanksgiving repeatedly, 

 that she is rightly fulfilling her duty in the manner in which He 

 ordered it. 



"Now, another thing; now the grasses that grow, beginning from 

 the surface of the ground and going upward, difl^er among themselves; 

 some put forth (bear) fruit, by which satisfaction is given to our 

 minds. 



"Now, again, another thing; in the next place the bushes that 

 grow, which, too, in like manner differ among themselves; some put 

 forth (bear) fruit, which gives satisfaction to our minds. 



"Now, again, another thing; in the next place the trees that grow, 

 which, too, in like manner differ among themselves; some put forth 

 (bear) fruit, which gives satisfaction to our minds. 



"Now, again, another thing; in the next place the several springs 

 of water, in the next place the several streams of water, in the next 

 place the several flowing streams of water; now, then, we make 

 rulable preparation and we greet with thanksgiving repeatedly all 

 the various orders of things we have designated; for, verily, they 

 live life in full, and besides he who formed our bodies placed them 

 and us together in one place. 



