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who hud followed Doonongaes from the great opening, now said, 

 " I must go home." " You would better do so," replied Tsodiqgwa- 

 don. As he started off, Tsodiqgwadon said to Doonongaes: "Come 

 out here. 1 want you to go to the northern end of the earth and see 

 how my father is getting on. He lives at the edge of the earth. Ask 

 him if he will not come here. Tell him we are to have a great council 

 at Broken Land. All the people of the world are to meet there."' 

 "What is your father's name?" asked Doonongaes. Tsodiqgwadon 

 said, " Deanohdjes.'^" He is of the Geia'^' people." 



Doonongaes immediately started on the journey. He traveled day 

 and night for a whole year,'"^ but could not reach the northern end of 

 the earth. One morning he said, " I do not believe I shall ever get 

 to the place where Deanohdjes lives." Sitting on a large stone he 

 wondered what he should do. At last he thought, " Well, I must 

 go on; if I do not Tsodiqgwadon may kill me, for he is greatei' in 

 sorcery than I." So he traveled on for another whole year. Then he 

 thought again : " How much farther must I go ? I am very far away 

 from Hanging Rock." (Tsodiqgwadon was so magically powerful 

 that he caused Doonongaes to lose his course, and hence to go round 

 and round without ever drawing nearer the place to which he was 

 sent.) One morning Doonongaes heard a voice from some village 

 near by. There sat Tsodiqgwadon, who turned, and, looking at him, 

 "asked, "Well, have you come back?" "Yes," said Doonongaes. 

 "Have you seen my father?" continued his questioner. "No; I 

 could not find his lodge," replied Doonongaes. " Well, you have been 

 gone a long time. Where have you been? " said Tsodiqgwadon. To 

 this Doonongaes rejoined : " I thought I was on my way north, and 

 that I was a great distance from here, and I wanted to know how 

 far I was from your father's lodge." Tsodiqgwadon began to laugh 

 and to make sport of him, saying, " I want you to go straight ahead 

 this time, not in a circle." 



Doonongaes now set out the second time. He traveled northward 

 for 10 days and nights, when he came to a narrow opening which 

 was so long that he could not see the farther end. This was called 

 Nitgendasadieha.^*' He started to cross this opening. At night he 

 slept soundly on the grass. The next morning he traveled on. He 

 was 10 ''■'■' days in crossing this opening. Going on farther, he came 

 to a second opening, through which he saw a lodge at the farther end. 

 Peeping through the cracks in the wall, he saw sitting inside by the 

 fire with his head down, smoking, an old man. The old man. who 

 was of the Osigweon ^"^ people, raising his head, said : " I smell a hu- 

 man being. My nephew must have come. Well, nephew, come in. 

 AVhy do you stand outside?" Thereupon Doonongaes. thinking. 

 " How did he know I was here ? " went in. The old man continued : " I 

 have been wishing for a long time that you would arrive, for I knew 



