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such is the regulation and decree ordained and promulgated by Him 

 whom you call De'hae"'hya\va"gi', and familiarly as Hawenni'yo' 

 (He, the Master). And these are the words which we thought it 

 necessary for you to hear before we separated one from another. So 

 may you have good dreams (i. e., good luck)." 



Then the two parties separated, the one from the other. And the 

 Men of Thunder departed from the earth, going back into cloudland, 

 and so back to their own lodge. 



In their turn, De'hae'"hy6'we°'s and his lone companion started from 

 the place where they had been left. They were not long in finding 

 the traces of the former home of their friends, and they found that 

 the place had become overgrowm with trees which had grown large 

 and which stood thick; and one who was unacquainted with the facts 

 would be in doubt whether or not any person had ever lived in that 

 place before that time. 



Then De'hae°'hyo'we°'s said to his companion, "Verily, it seems 

 that now we must depend on ourselves to find our people. We must, 

 thei'efore, now go to seek the place where they now dwell." And 

 they started, directing their course eastward, toward the sunrise, 

 as they had been instructed. 



At no great distance they saw the smoke from a village, and they 

 made their way to it. So, on entering the first lodge they reached, 

 De'hae°'hyo'we'"s said, "We have now returned home." In reply, 

 the master of the lodge said, "WTiither did j'ou go? And who are 

 you? As to myself, I do not know you." 



Answering him, De'hae°'hyo'we°'s said, "Haveyounot at any time 

 heard a tradition, that a number of men, thirty in all, started on a 

 journe,y following the path of the Sun? — a party formed by De'- 

 hae°'hyo'we'"s and Gae°'hyakdon'dye', two famous war-chiefs, of 

 men who had thoroughly habituated themselves to warlike exercises? 

 They undertook while going toward the sunsetting to kill and scalp 

 all the peoples whom they might encounter on their way." 



Then the master of the lodge said to them in reply, "I myself 

 know nothing of the matter about which you are speaking. Wlien 

 such a thing may have taken place I do not know. It may be that 

 the old woman, living in yonder lodge, ma}-, perhaps, for her part, 

 know about this matter. You should go over to consult her about it. " 



Then De'hae'"hyo'we"'s and his companion passed on, going to 

 the lodge pointed out to them. So entering the lodge in which the 

 old woman designated lived, De'hae°'hyo'we°'s again said, "Do you 

 know the circumstance in the history of your people that, in the long 

 ago, some men — warriors, three times ten in number — went on an 

 expedition, from which they never returned; the party was formed 

 by two war chiefs, De'hae'"hyo'we°'s and Gafiiyakdoii'dye'? They 

 went toward the sunsetting, following the path of the Sun." 



