356 MYTHS OF THE CHEROKEE ikih.ann.19 



Holding the bolts over lii.s ana while .speaking, Hard-mush told of 

 the original treaty with the Iroquois, and explained the meaning of 

 eaeh belt in turn. According to the best of Watford's recollection, 

 there was one large belt, to which the smaller belts were fitted. The 

 beads did not seem to be of shell, and may have been of porcelain. 

 There were also red pipes for the warriors, grayi.sh-white pipes for 

 the chiefs who were foremost in making the peace, and some fan.s or 

 other ornaments of feathers. There were several of the red pipes, 

 resembling the red-stone pipes of the Sioux, but only one, or perhaps 

 two, of the white peace pipes, which may have been only painted, and 

 were much larger than the others. The pipes were passed around the 

 circle at the council, so that each delegate might take a whitf. The 

 objects altogether made a considerable package, wiiich was carefully 

 guarded by the Cherokee keeper. It is thought that they were 

 destroj'ed in the War of the Rebellion when the house of John Ross, a 

 few miles south of Tahlequah, was burned by the Confederate Chero- 

 kee under their general. Stand Watie. 



90. HIADEONI, THE SENECA 



"' Hiadeoni was the father of the late chief Young-king. He was a 

 Seneca warrior, a man of great prowess, dexterity, and swiftness of 

 foot, and had established his reputation for courage and skill on many 

 occasions. He resolved while the Seneca were still living on the Gen- 

 esee river to make an incursion alone into the country of the Cherokee. 

 He plumed himself with the idea that he could distinguish himself in 

 this daring adventure, and he prepared for it, according to the custom 

 of warriors. They never encumber themselves with baggage. He 

 took nothing but his arms and the meal of a little parched and pounded 

 corn. The forest gave him his meat. 



Hiadeoni reached the confines of the Cherokee country in safety and 

 alone. He waited for evening before he entered the precincts of a 

 village. He found the people engaged in a dance. He watched his 

 opportunity, and when one of the dancers went out from the ring into 

 the bushes he dispatched him with his hatchet. In this way he killed 

 two men that night in the skirts of the woods without exciting alarm, 

 and took their scalps and retreated. It was late when he came to a 

 lodge, standing remote from the rest, on hi.s- course homeward. 

 Watching here, he saw a young man come out, and killed him as he 

 had done the others, and took his scalp. Looking into the lodge cau- 

 tiously he saw it empty, and ventured in with the hope of finding some 

 tobacco and ammunition to serve him on his way home. 



While thus busied in searching the lodge he heard footsteps at the 

 door, and immediately threw himself on the l)ed from which the joung 

 man had risen, and covered his face, feigning sleep. They proved to 

 be the footsteps of his last victim's mother. She, .supposing him to 

 be her son, whom she had a short time before left lyuig there, .said, 



