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more they said : " It seems that we liave come to the end of the 

 earth. Let us look for our grandfather's lodge." They saw an 

 opening or clearing, and on the farther side smoke arising. They 

 found a lodge there, and on looking in saw an old man, at which 

 they said one to the other, " I wonder whether that is our grand- 

 father." While they were looking, the old man, straightening him- 

 self up, called out : " Come in, grandsons. Why do you stay out- 

 side ? " They looked at each other, saying, " How did he see us, for 

 his back is toward us?" Going around the lodge, they entered. 

 The old man said, ''You have a message, otherwise you would not 

 have come ; but let me get my pipe first." ''■' Taking his pipe and 

 beginning to smoke, he said, "Now I am ready." "Well," said the 

 two men, " our people are assembled in an important condoling coun- 

 cil, and they said to us: 'Go to our grandfather; tell him that our 

 chief has fallen and that we want to make him alive again.' " " Very 

 well," replied the old man, who was one of the Ganos (Spring-frog 

 people) ; "you have come on a very important errand and I will give 

 you something that will be of great use to you, in fact the only 

 thing that can bring your chief to life again." Going into a hole 

 in the ground, the old man returned with a white flint in the form 

 of a canoe, about as long as a finger. In one end of this white flint 

 canoe was some black paint and in the other end was a powder — a 

 medicine of some mysterious kind. The old man said : " When you 

 go to use what I give you now, color your faces with this paint, 

 then paint your dead chief's face with it also; and after that, put 

 this powder on the edges of the wound and wash his face with cold 

 water. Then blow on him and he shall come to life. When he 

 opens his eyes, put this powder into water and give it to him to 

 drink." Hurrjang off in the boat, they arrived at Broken Land 

 without delay. They said : " We were hindered by the lake.'^- We 

 kept going around it." The new chief replied, " People .seldom set 

 away from that lake, which is called Ganigonhadontha Ganiodae '^- 

 (the delirium-making lake) ; it puts men out of their minds." 



The people now waited for the next two men. Those two went 

 ahead till they came to an opening lengthwise in the trail. On look- 

 ing around, thej' could see people sitting here and there. One of the 

 men said : " I wonder what they are doing. Are they watching and 

 guarding the opening? We must pass.'' They passed by unharmed 

 and traveled till night, when they came to a hollow tree lying on the 

 ground. They crawled into this and had been there only a short time 

 when some one rapped and said, " Well, are you here for the night? " 

 One answered, " Yes; we are." " What would you do if the Ganiag- 

 waihegowa should come? " was asked them. " Oh ! we should like it; 

 we should play tag and have a good time," they replied. Soon they 

 heard a voice saying: " Come out as quickly as you can. I have come 



