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who shall pray to Thee with an offering of this native tobacco,' and 

 then I cast it on the fire, and forthwith arose smoke from the burn- 

 ing tobacco. Thereupon I said: 'Now aid us; tell us what we must 

 do; perhaps You may come to us in a vision; perhaps You might 

 send the advice to us through a dream; at all events tell us what 

 to do. Now, we will lie down to sleep.' 



"Just at midnight I was surprised to hear one speak, saying: 'I 

 have come to aid you; I tell you that to-morrow just before midday 

 you and your men must go to the valley, and there overlooking it 

 you must lie down prone and rest on your elbows.' And he said, too : 

 ' You must watch carefully the opposite side of the valley, and 

 when you shall see a bear running along the opposite cliff you must 

 shout Pa — 'a p-hu-e, and thereupon you must all arise and flee 

 from the place a short distance and must stop and look back toward 

 the valley, and then you shall see what shall happen, what shall 

 happen to the persons of your adversaries when they will enter 

 the farther entrance to the valley — these Genonsgwa.' The noise 

 made by these Genonsgwa as they came forward was very great; 

 the sound that they made was du — urn. As they came on, the voice 

 of their chief was heard singing; he chanted the war song of the 

 Genonsgwa, saying: 'No one has the power to overcome me;' this 

 is what he said in his singing. 



"Just then the cliffs on each side of the valley with the forests 

 growing on them were upheaved with a deafening roar and crash 

 and fell into the valley upon the advancing Genonsgwa; this was 

 followed by the sounds of breaking trees and their limbs as they 

 were crushed under the weight of the overturned cliffs, and then 

 all was silent. Thus did this event come to pass. 



" Now I shall speak to this assembly as it is here listening to 

 what I have related. He who aided us was the Master of Life. He 

 told us to return home, and He bade us never to undertake an 

 enterprise such as that which took us from our homes. Ho bade us 

 to make peace with all tribes of men, of whatsoever land or language 

 they might be ; for if we should not follow His advice we ourselves 

 might one day shed one another's blood; and He bade us to bury 

 deep in the ground the scalping-knife, the war bow and arrow, and 

 the battle-ax and the war-club. He bade us to put all these things 

 out of this world, telling us that if we do this we shall be contented 

 and happy in the future, if we consent to this and to inform all our 

 people of this advice and the chiefs, too. But as we do not know 

 what the chiefs will do in this matter we have called this council 

 to ascertain this important opinion of our chiefs. Now we have told 

 you these tidings which we have brought with us, and now you 

 must take great pains in considering this matter in all its bearings; 

 I mean you, our chiefs. There. I am through with my address." 



