^l^r^i] LEGENDS 693 



arrived at the river bank, at the phice of meeting. There was 

 assembled a large body of people. 



Then one of the chiefs, standing beside the river, said: "Behold! 

 now tell m? what your thought is as to how you and I may be able 

 to adjust our troubles in peace. Tell me this. So there is what I 

 have to sa}'." 



Then the chief on the opposite side of the river, standing near 

 the brink, said : " Xow has come to pass what I think that He who 

 alone has made our lives, desires, but where He abides I do not 

 know, for our lives ai'e alike, our forms are alike, and the color of 

 our skin is the same, for we are reddish in color. We have blun- 

 dered. We have only killed one another, and we have only shed one 

 another's blood. So let us stop this evil work, and let it not come to 

 pass again : and let us bury the scalping-knife, the war bow and 

 arrows, and the battle-ax; let all these be left deep in the ground; 

 and thereby we shall put these out of the world. So this is my 

 opinion. Let us be at peace in the future ; let us be at peace in our 

 minds; and let the minds of our people be at peace, those of our 

 children, our women, and our warriors. Such is my opinion, and I 

 who speak it am a chief. So this is enough. Now it is for you to 

 speak, you who are a chief. I do not know whether what I have 

 said is pleasing to you. This will I do. I have finished." 



There was a great sound — dai(ri — made by the assembled tribes, 

 for there were very many people. Then the chief on the opposite 

 side of the river, standing on the shore, said : " Now, you who are a 

 chief have ended your address, and I agree to allthat you have said; 

 hence you and I will adjust all our troubles and difficulties so that 

 they may never return. Now, too, you and I Avill bury deep in the 

 ground the scalping-knife, the war bow and arrows, and the battle-ax ; 

 all these things we will place in the earth, so that none of them 

 shall come forth again, and there they shall disappear from the 

 earth. Thus let it come to pass. So, there." 



Then, on the opposite side of the river, the other chief who had 

 proposed this conference, arising, said : " I am, indeed, thankful 

 that my desires have been fulfilled in this peaceful agreement. I 

 do give you many thanks for your pai-t in this matter, and so now 

 you and I will bury in the ground all those things with which you 

 and I have been accustomed to kill each other, in such manner that 

 they shall never again come forth. We will put them out of the 

 world, so that so long as the earth stands such things shall not again 

 take place. So. there."' 



Then the chief on the other side of the river, arising in his place, 

 .'^aid : " T am thankful for the accomplishment of this great com- 

 pact of peace, and I congratulate you as well, you who are also a 

 chief. So now we shall prepare it; and it shall be very broad. 



