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that you and I should again eat together, for we know that it is very 

 doubtful whether you shall return in health and peace. All manner 

 of difficulties and dangers fill the way which you must follow. 



" If it be so that you become a son-in-law, then you must say to 

 j^our mother-in-law, ' I shall now smoke my pipe.' And when you 

 have lighted your pipe you shall inhale the smoke twice, and your 

 mother-in-law must spread a buckskin on the ground. Then you 

 shall inhale the smoke only twice and shall expectorate wampum 

 beads thereon. Together in one place j^ou and I shall eat again and 

 also sleep again." 



So they spent the night in the lodge together, and in the morning 

 they ate together. AVhen they had finished their meal the young man 

 said : " I am all ready now. Oh, uncle ! I start now. Put forth, there- 

 fore, your orenda (magic power=hope, in modern usage) that in 

 peace and health you and I may see each other again." The old 

 uncle answered, " So let it be as you have said." The young man 

 replied, " Indeed, you did say that there are 10 camping sites indi- 

 cated by signs of fireplaces on the way, and that it is 10 days' jour- 

 ney." So saying, he started on his journey. 



After leaving the lodge the young man ran very swiftly. He had 

 not gone very far, as he judged, when he was surprised to see the 

 ashes and the dead coals of a former fire — the signs of a camping place. 

 At this he exclaimed, "All ! he did not say that some of the camping 

 places were quite near." He stopped and thought seriously for 

 some moments, finally deciding to return to the lodge for further 

 information from his old uncle. So he ran homeward, going to the 

 place where lived his uncle, his mother's brother. On arriving there 

 the uncle said to him, " Well, what has happened to you ? " The young 

 man answered, "I have come to ask you again about my journey. 

 You did not say that one of the camping places was near by." The 

 old uncle exclaimed, " IFm".' Did you go as far as that? " " I went 

 as far as that," replied the young man. The uncle answered, " Ho, 

 j-ou are indeed quite immune to the spells of sorcery. These camping 

 places are all like this one along the way." The young man replied, 

 " So be it. I will stop there again. It does not matter, does it, that 

 you and I see daylight together?" The old man was much dis- 

 couraged. Daylight came upon them, and they ate their morning 

 meal together. When they had finished eating, the old man, address- 

 ing his nephew, said, " You shall hereafter be called Ongwe' 

 Hafiges"ha'. It shall be your custom when anyone asks you your 

 name to say, Ongwe' Haiiges"ha'." The young man answered, " So 

 be it. I now start," and he left the lodge of his uncle. 



The youth came to the place marked for the first camping place, 

 but he passed it and kept on, and thus he did with all the others, 

 until he arrived at the tenth camping place, although the sun was 



