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A day's journey farther on they came to the dwelling place of a 

 third people, whom they dealt with as before. Next morning they 

 resumed their march. They repeated their bloody exploits wherever 

 they found a village on the line of their march, continuing this slaugh- 

 ter for many moons. 



After pursuing this course for a long time, the packs of scalps which 

 they carried on their backs became so heavy as to be burdensome. 

 Of course, a number of the band had been killed by the people whom 

 they had attacked, so it now happened that those who remained 

 began to complain of the weight of the scalps. One and all said, 

 " It seems advisable that we should now leave our packs of scalps 

 here in some out of the way place for safekeeping." Finally their 

 chief, Dehaenhyowens, said : " It is probable also that we may now 

 see what we are seeking — the scalp of all scalps. This we could 

 use to cover all we have. Moreover, the kind of thing (s) which we 

 bring with us would not spoil." 



It was about this time that they fell in with a man so tall that 

 one-half the height of the tallest trees was the measure of his tower- 

 ing stature. Then it was that Gaenhyakdondye (Along the-Edge-of- 

 the-Sky. i. e., the Horizon) said: "Our good fortune has brought 

 about the accomplishment of the purpose of our expedition upon 

 which we had agreed — namely, that we should see in our hands a 

 large quantity of scalps. I think the next thing to be done is to 

 resolve to kill this man, whom we have met in this place. We shall 

 then become possessed of the large scalp about which my brother has 

 already prophesied. So let us attack him at once." Immediately 

 deploying, they began to assault him, shooting arrows at him, and 

 struck him with their war clubs and stone hatchets, but they could 

 make no impression on him and failed to harm him in the least. At 

 last the strange man said to them, kindly : '" What is it you desire 

 to do? Do you imagine that you can kill me?" They answered, 

 " That is indeed our purpose, as it has been our purpose on the 

 journey hither to kill all who fall in our way, no matter who they 

 may be." To this frank admission the strange man replied : " The 

 purpose for which you are banded together is not good. From this 

 time forward you must utterly renounce it and carefully i-efrain 

 from carrying it out. Know that it is quite impossible for you to 

 kill me. The reason I came to meet you here was to give you this 

 counsel. I watched you as you made your way to this place, and 

 saw with grief that you killed many people. I want you to know that 

 the reason I have come to meet you is that you have now committed 

 wrongs enough on innocent people ; and I want you to know further 

 that if you do not cease from doing these wrongs you also shall die." 

 To this the leader of the band, Dehaenhyowens, answered : " We are 

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