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you shall know at once its meaning, and shall say one to another, 

 ' Now it seems that the time is at hand in which He will take to 

 pieces the earth as it stands.' Verily, such is the strict manner in 

 which He has commissioned us, charging us with definite duties. It 

 is well known that the Diurnal Light Orb (the Sun) customarih' 

 comes from one certain direction; in like manner, it is also true of 

 me, for I too must appear to the lower world from one certain di- 

 rection. This obligation on our part is fixed; and our coming shall 

 never occur in a different manner as long as the earth endures — at 

 least until that day in the future when He himself, whom you call 

 sometimes Haweiini'yo, shall transform what He himself has es- 

 tablished. 



" Xow the time has arrived for you to start for your home ; but 

 first, before you depart, you must journey about this upper world 

 to see everything that may be beneficial to you and to your people in 

 the days to come. By the time you return from this journey of 

 observation I will have made ready what you shall take with you 

 when you shall go again to make mellow and wrt the earth beneath. 

 This, too, upon which I am at work is something about which I 

 must tell you something. I am engaged in making myself a mantle, 

 and the material out of which I am weaving it is, indeed, what you 

 think it is — human hair. You have observed as well that each time 

 I lay my work aside for a moment my small cur as often undoes 

 quite all that I have done. I will now tell you by what means I 

 obtain the human hair of which I am making myself a mantle. 

 Wlien some human being dies on the earth below one hair from his 

 head detaches itself and departs thence, coming directly to me. It 

 is such hairs that I am using in making my mantle. This serves as 

 a sign to me that one has ceased to be on the earth below, and that 

 that person is traveling hither. This shall continue as long as the 

 earth beneath shall endure and have form. Moreover, mark this 

 well, that when He shall cause the death of human beings on the 

 earth below, it shall then and not before be possible for me to finish 

 the mantle on which I am working; and the number of hairs in this 

 mantle will then bear witness to the number of persons who have 

 visited the earth below while it lasted* Now you may take an 

 observation trip." 



Thereupon the men of the lodge and the entire party of Dehaen- 

 hyowens started out to view the notable things in the vicinity of the 

 lodge. They went to that place where for the first time during their 

 visit they had seen the beauty and pleasantness of that upper world ; 

 they admired the strawberry plants, bearing luscious berries, as 

 tall as the high grasses among which they grew; these were in 

 bloom, for their bearing season was continuous. They saw, too, the 

 growing trees full of fine blossoms; never before had they seen such 

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