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smiled, and one asked: "Is it not true that you and I are friends? " 

 Whereupon the other answered : " Indeed it is the truth we are 

 friends. Whence did you come?" Then the lad said: "^o, far 

 from here have I come. AVhence did you come to this place ? " 

 The stranger replied : " I, this self of mine, came from far from here, 

 and I have left no relations, and this is the reason why I am called 

 Hodadenon (S'hodadenon *'^). It is known that I myself am the last 

 one. The lodge whence I came was very long and, it is said, was 

 full of my relations, now dead, and of my own brothers. They were 

 destroj'ed on the way to the place where dwell those women of evil 

 minds. We are friends, so let us go together. You can aid me, 

 and we shall be able to rob them of tobacco." The stranger's answer 

 was. " Be it so," whereupon the two at once started off along the 

 path. 



After going a long distance they found the remains of a fire; 

 there they stopped for the night. As soon as they had warmed up 

 bread and meat they ate their evening meal. When they had fin- 

 ished eating the stranger said : " It is a fact that these portions of 

 bread affixed to the top of the rods are the cause or occasion for 

 which all our kinsmen died. Moreover, it is for us to make this a 

 feast of Reunion of the Living, which we must use as the means of 

 thanksgiving and prayer. "We must make an offering of tobacco by 

 casting tobacco on the fire. It is called the ceremony of making an 

 offering of tobacco. I have tobacco with which to do this." Hoda- 

 denon answered: "So be it. How shall we do it?" The stranger: 

 "All provisions that you have brought with you we must lay in a 

 circle around the fire, and a portion we must place aside in the 

 dark (i. e.. conceal it)." Saying, "So be it," Hodadeiion began to 

 take the things out of his pouch and to lay them in a circle ai'ound 

 the fire. He also hid far away in the dark some meat and bread. 



Standing beside the fire and holding the tobacco from the pouch 

 in his hand, he said : " Come now, listen to me, you, all kinds of 

 animals and you, too, who have formed and made my life." W^ith 

 these words he cast the tobacco into the fire, exclaiming : " Now 

 do you listen; now the smoke of tobacco arises. Moreover, he and 

 I ask you to give us assistance, all of you who inhabit. the forests 

 and who are immune to enchantment, and you who have made my 

 life and that of my friend, who, too. has no relations left, and my- 

 self who have no relations left, for which reason I am called Hoda- 

 denon. We shall fetch all these from the place where they have 

 perished. These are the things for which I pray. So thus we here 

 fulfill our obligation by placing this tobacco in this place, and we 

 have laid away food in the darkness." Having completed this in- 

 vocation, Hodadenon said to his companion: "Come, now, let us 



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