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make peace with all your neighbors, must bury deep in the earth the 

 scalping-knife, the bow and the arrow, and the battle-ax. All these 

 you must bury in the ground, and you must leave them there, and 

 thus put them out of the world. Now I am through." 



Then the warriors started for home and soon arrived at their 

 d'welling places. Immediately the chief assembled the people; iie 

 went through the village, ajid as he walked along he said to them: 

 "We will hold a council, and we must assemble in the Long lodge; 

 we must assemble there early in the morning as soon as the morning 

 meal has been eaten. Everyone must be there — cliildren and 

 women ; the entire body of this people must be there to listen to the 

 tiding which we have brought back." 



Early the next morning the chief made a second announcement, 

 saying: "We will hold a council to-day." So a large body of per- 

 sons gathered in the Long lodge in which was the council chamber, 

 and when they had taken their places the chief arose and addressed 

 them thus: " You must give strict attention to what we have to say 

 to you. We have been absent in distant regions, where we had in- 

 tended to kill any peojjle whom we might find. There we saw people 

 such as we had never seen before, for their garments were of stone. 

 It is probable that we never could kill them; they were very numer- 

 ous. It so happened that we encamped very near them and that 

 when they kindled their fire we saw it in the distance. Then I, who 

 was the chief of the band, said ' Come, we will go to reconnoiter in' 

 the vicinity of that light.' One of the warriors answei'ed : ' I will go 

 there,' but I went in his stead to the neighborhood of the light to 

 investigate. Having arrived there I found persons lying around 

 asleep, and I saw that their garments were of stone, and that they 

 were set up against the neighboring trees. Suddenly one of the 

 sleepers, springing up, said to me. ' AVhat are your intentions^ ' I 

 said in reiJy, ' I do not intend to do anvthing,' for I was afraid. He 

 replied: 'Do you not intend to kill anyone you can? Now you and 

 I shall fight. To-morrow when the sun is at midday, there where 

 the deep valley is, in the bottom of the valley, you must come from 

 the one side and I, for my part, will enter the valley from the opposite 

 side, and therein we shall meet; then you and I will fight.' I re- 

 plied to him : ' Let it be so,' and departed thence and returned to our 

 camp, where I at once told my friends what I had seen. I said: 

 'I have seen an astonishing condition of things. When I arrived 

 there I found the people lying down, and near by, leaning against the 

 trees, were their garments, which were of stone, so it is probably im- 

 possible for us to kill them. So let it be.' I will make a sacrificial 

 pra.yer to Him who has completed the structure of our lives; I will 

 cast oh the fire sacrificially native tobacco. At once I took tobacco, 

 and holding it in my hand, I said : ' Thou hast promised to aid those 



