580 IROQUOIAN COSMOLOGY [eth. ann.43 



then, speak, customarily, and will declare it, if it so be that he or she 

 knows it correctl.V-" 



Now, at that time, He took up one and holding it up high then 

 asked, saying, "What is the name of this one?" Now, at that time, 

 they replied; there were found only a few persons who knew it and 

 who correctly named it. Now, at that time, He said, "This shall be 

 for medicine, and this will continue to be an aid to the human beings. 

 So, then, that will be able to counteract a few in number of the kinds 

 of disease." That next tliat there were only a very few persons who 

 truly knew them and who remembered their names correctly. Thus, 

 then, it will come to pass in the future, that there will be only a few 

 certain persons who will ever know the medicine that will aid one." 

 Now, at that time. He began again to ask questions, and He exhausted 

 the number of kmds, and those who Icnew them correctly told Him 

 so. Now, also. He told them all the things of which these woidd be 

 able to cure them. Now, at that time. He said, "Now, I have com- 

 pleted this matter. So then, it came to pass that only a few persons 

 were found who knew correctly all the kinds of things that grow, so 

 then, in the next place, the responsibility rests with them to give their 

 attention to the medicine. Now, also, they shall begin to continue 

 to give aid to the human beings both in the flesh and in the mind. 

 So then, it is already prepared and there lies the native tobacco beside 

 your bodies; so then, both are equally responsible, and it will be 

 l^ossible that, in whichever direction one will be drawn, that one 

 shall become ill; now, verily, that one will take up native tobacco for 

 a thank-offering; then, one will take up the native tobacco, and now, 

 at that time, one shall use that as a thank-offering, turning toward 

 the place where abides the person who understands medicine, and 

 when one arrives there one shall say, 'I beseech thee that thou shouldst 

 aid me; a serious thing is drawn toward me, it is sickness. Now, 

 then, I choose thee to aid me.' Now, at that time, one will deliver 

 what one bears and one will say, 'Here lies that with which I make 

 (pledge) my word. Now, I depend upon thee.' Now, at that time, 

 that one will accept it, and then will depart, going thither to the 

 place where grows the medicine. So then, when one will see that 

 growing which one knows will aid a person who is ill, then there beside 

 it one will stand, at the place where it grows, and now, then, one 

 will say, 'Thou here art selected in that one has put dependence on 

 thee, that thou shouldst aid the ill person whose body lies supine 

 yonder, a human bemg.' Now, at that time, one will name the per- 

 son, and one will say, ' Here, then, is the thank-offering that one makes, 

 that we should aid that one.' Now having, then, that with which 

 one has made one's word, one will cast there the native tobacco, and 

 just then, and not before, shall one take up the medicine. Then, 

 one will carry it back, and when one will arrive home again, then one 



