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" Well, you lune more orciida than anyone else in the world,"' said 

 Dcanohdjes, to which Tsodiqgwadon retorted: "I do what the people 

 wish. They said they were going to appoint another chief, and I 

 supposed they had found some one who is magically more powerful 

 than I am." Then Tsodiqgwadon, addressing the meeting, said, 

 " Take the person who you think has the greatest orenda." Some 

 one then said: "Let us adjourn for 10 days, for only our own people 

 are present now, while others who are coming should be here. Let 

 flaiwanenqgwi -'= be sent to all the people of every kind in the world 

 to notify them of the council." Accordingly he was sent, and the 

 council was adjourned. After going all over the world, as he 

 thought, he came back. "Have you been everywhere?'' asked 

 Tsodiqgwadon. " Yes ; the world is not so large that I had need of 

 many -days to visit all its parts," replied Haiwanenqgwi. "Have 

 you found every known people?" was asked him. " Yes, excepting 

 one; I have not seen these," he answered. "Who are they?" asked 

 Tsodiqgwadon. " The Dagwanoenyents," Haiwanen<igwi said. "' Oh 1 

 did you not go to Gaha Gastende,-^" where the high rocks are in the 

 east?" inquired Tsodiqgwadon. "No; I thought no one lived there," 

 he replied. " Well, you must go there, for that is the place where 

 the Dagwanoenyents live," declared T.sodiqgwadon. 



Haiwanenqgwi started again. On reaching the foot of the moun- 

 tain he met some of the Dagwanoenyents, who roam all over the region 

 of Wind Cliff, and to them he said, " I have come to notify your 

 people that a council is to be held at Broken Land in 10 days from 

 now." The chief answered, " You stay here until I call a meeting, 

 so you can tell all the people, for if 1 should deliver the message 

 they might not believe me." So saj'ing, he went on the mountain 

 to a place where these people always held their meetings; it was a 

 smooth place without trees or grass. Soon the people began to 

 appear, and when all had come, there were hundreds and hundreds 

 of them. Haiwanenqgwi, rising, said, "I have come to notify your 

 people that a council will be held at Broken Land 10 days hence and 

 that you must all be present." In response all said, "We will be 

 there at the appointed time." Then the meeting adjourned and all 

 went home. When Haiwanenqgwi returned to his home Tsodiq- 

 gwadon asked him, "Have you now notified all kinds of people?" 

 He replied, " Yes ; all those whom I have ever seen." Thereupon he 

 was asked, "Have you notified the Stone Coats?" To which he 

 answered, "No; where do they live?" Tsodiqgwadon told him, 

 .saying : " They live on Gahsgwaa Tgawenot,-'*' far off in the west. 

 After you have been there go to an island in a southerly direction 

 therefrom called Othegwenhdah Tgawenot;^^* there you will find 

 other people. Thence you must go in a southeasterly direction until 

 you come to Oosah Tgawenot.^^^ The people of this island are called 



