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The youth replied, "I have come just to visit you." "Come inside 

 then," was the response. " Ot'hegwenhda has come," said the man to 

 his wife, who turned, saying : " My grandson, I am glad you have 

 ^ come. We have been waiting for a long time to see you. Now wo 

 will tell you why we wish you to be powerful. We know that 

 you have killed the man-eater, Dewaqsent'hwus, and the skeletons ot 

 Tsodiqgwadon and Ganiagwaihegowa. There are many people under 

 our lodge and we want you to free them." At one corner of the 

 room was an opening through which the boy passed into a second 

 very large room, in which he found a multitude of people without 

 flesh and almost dead. He rubbed them with spittle, thus curing 

 them, after which he brought them out. "Now," said he, "you are 

 all free and need have no furtlier fear, for the evil people are all 

 dead." He then asked all where they came from. One party, the 

 Djoniaik people, said they came from Diogegas he Tgawenonde 

 CHickory Point). " You go southward fifty days," he told them ; and 

 they went. The second party, the (laisgense people, said they came 

 from Gendowane (Great Meadow). " You go toward the southeast." 

 he told them. A third party, the Djagwiu people, said they came 

 from Gahadowane (Great Forest). " You go toward the so\itheast," 

 he told them. A fourth party, the Ogenhwan people, said they came 

 from Diodonhwendjiagon (Broken Land). A fifth party, the 

 Gwaqgwa people, said they came from Hehdon dyoondaien (June- 

 berry Tree Grove). "Go directly westward a day and a half." was 

 the command. A sixth party, the Guro ^^° people, said that they came 

 from Nitgendasedyea (Beyond the Narrow Opening). "You travel 

 toward the south five days' journey." he said. Three were left who 

 did not remember at first where they came from. Then they said, 

 " We think that the old people called the place we came from Steep 

 Opening." "Then you go northeastward," said the youth. Ot'he- 

 gwenhda was left there alone. The man and woman who had been 

 guarding the ]ieople just liberated now thanked him; they. too. were 

 then free from Dewaqsenfhwt'is. the man-eater, who, being master 

 of the skeletons, had forced them all to work for him in capturing 

 and confining people for him to eat. "Now," said Ot'hegwenhda, 

 " let all the trails disappear. Trails are not to be made across the 

 world to deceive people." Thereupon the trails all vanished. 



Then the youth went to his ownlodge, where he found his fatlier 

 and his nine brothers, sitting on a great flat stone. " Oh ! " said the 

 youth. " why do you not go inside where my mother is? " Hagowanen 

 answered, "Your mother drove us out." Ot'hegwenhda, going inf.^ 

 the lodge, asked : " Mother, what have yoti done ? Are you .lot glad 

 that I brought my father and brothers back?" "Did you find and 

 bring them home?" asked his mother. "Yes. I did," he replied. 

 Then the woman was sorry. She invited them in. and they came into 



