798 IROQUOIAN COSMOLOGY (eth. ann.43 



At this time one of the players exhibited great rudeness in his manner 

 of playing, for he struck right and left with his netted club without 

 regard to the other players who might be injured by his recklessness. 

 Then a person from the multitude went up to that player and said 

 to him, "Do thou cease from acting so rudely; thy manner is too 

 violent, because one who rejoices does not act in this manner. So 

 do not act thus again." 



The players at once resumed the game, playing as they never had 

 played before. In a short time, however, the player who had been 

 cautioned to be more mild in his methods of play again exhibited his 

 violence toward his playmates. 



Then the man who had reprimanded him before went up to him 

 again and said, "Assuredly, I forbade you acting so rude as you have; 

 I told you not to act thus violently again. Yet, thou hast disregarded 

 my request. And so, now you shall, moreover, rest for a time. 

 You are too unkind and headstrong." 



Thereupon, seizing the ball player by the nape of the neck and by 

 the legs and lifting him up bodily bore him from the field. Not far 

 therefrom stood a very large tree. Thither the man carried the ball 

 player, and having arrived beside the tree, and still carrying the 

 ball player, he cast the body headlong against the trunk of the tree. 

 Head foremost the body penetrated the tree trunk, the head coming 

 part way out on the opposite side of the tree, while his feet still 

 protruded on the other. Then the man quietly returned to the ball 

 ground, and the game was resumed; it was continued until one of 

 the sides had scored the requisite number of points to win the game, 

 and then the players again commingled with the multitude. 



Then the man who had imprisoned the rude player in the tree 

 trunk went to that tree and released the prisoner and set him free 

 with an admonition to be more mild in his method of play in the 

 future. Upon his return to the multitude, he told them that it was 

 time for them to return to their several homes, and they dispersed. 



It was then that this man who appeared to be one of the chief 

 men of the settlement came to the place where stood the traveling 

 company of De'hae'"hyo'we°'s. As soon as he came up to them he 

 asked familiarly, "So you have arrived, have you?" 



Replying De'hae°'hyo'we'"s said, "We have now arrived." 



It was then that the man said, "Assuredly, the reason that you 

 have arrived safely in this land is that one of your number began at 

 the very time of your departure from home to think, repeatedly 

 soliloquizing, 'Oh, Thou Master of Life, Thou shouldst have pity 

 on us, so that we may pass through all the dangers which beset the 

 accomplishment of the purpose of our solemn agreement. But, if 

 it so be that we shall die on this earth, grant that we may also arrive 

 in that other land that is extant, where Thou Thyself abidest, Thou 



