^,'rAyi^] LEGENDS ' 627 



In a short time, the visitors having seen all that was interesting 

 in the lodge, said: " Let us now go hence on our journey," and they 

 at once resumed their own course. They had not gone very far when 

 the men of Thunder said : " It is now time for us to begin ; Dag- 

 a'e°'da' shall be the first one to act." Daga'e°'da', the former mem- 

 ber of the party of Dehaenhyowens (Light Kays?), began to sing in 

 a loud voice, thus setting his orenda to woi"k to carry out his function. 

 Then the two human beings who were to return to the earth below 

 saw the earth in the distance beneath them, and they heard, too, the 

 people dwelling on the earth say : " Now the beginning of the Spring 

 Season has come upon us. Indeed, the Spring AVind is blowing 

 warm and hot, and now, too, the Thunders are singing in the dis- 

 tance." 



Then the party moved on. Looking down on the earth from above 

 the sky and the clouds they saw the effect of the singing of the 

 Thunder men. At this time the voices of the Thunder men sounded 

 loud and angry, as it were, as they moved along the sky, and on the 

 earth below fell ton-ents of rain with great force, and they saw the 

 creeks and rivers swell and overflow their banks. 



To the human beings of the party they had not gone very far, as 

 it seemed, when they were startled by alighting on the earth. There- 

 upon one of the Thunder men said to them: "Now, indeed, you are 

 again at your homes whence you departed, so we have fully dis- 

 charged our obligation to bring you safely back. Moreover, we will 

 now tell you something regarding another matter. It is a long time 

 since the former inhabitants of this country withdrew from here 

 and went to another settlement. You will find them in the place 

 where they are now living." 



Having conducted their friends some distance on the ground, one 

 of the men of Thunder said : " We will now separate one from 

 another. You must keep us in remembrance. For this purpose you 

 shall employ the native tobacco, making an offering thereby in words 

 and in acts. This will be quite sufficient for the purpose, for we 

 shall hear the thanksgiving and accept the offering at once. In like 

 manner shall it be done to all those, and only to those, who are 

 charged by Him with duties and important functions. If you 

 should think of Him or of them, that is the chief and essential, 

 thing — the employment habitually of native tobacco by you in this 

 important matter. Such is the method which you who still live on 

 the earth here below must regularly employ in forming your messages 

 of thanksgiving. Such is the regulation and decree ordained and 

 promulgated b_v Him whom you call Deaunhyawagon, familiarly as 

 Haweiini'yo (He, The Master). These are the words which we 

 thought it necessary for you to hear before we separated one from 

 another. May you have good dreams." 



