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will go tbrougli the valley. We will meet ou the mouutain at dusk." 

 So they parted, and Ga-geh-djo-wS, remembering bis way, sped where he 

 guessed he should find some of his old tribe. He found, as he expected, 

 a family he knew. In hurried words be explained to them their danger: 

 " The treacherous Illinois are upon you. Warn all the tribe of Senecas: 

 bid them come early and hide along the range above the valley. I will 

 be there with a heron's plume on my crest, and when I stumble it is the 

 signal for the Senecas to attack. Go and tell the word of Gageh-djowJl. 

 He is true." 



Eeturning to the appointed spot he reported that he had seen nothing, 

 and hastened back to the camp. Then he said: "I remember these 

 hills. I know where the Senecas hide. Give me the bravest warriors 

 and we will go ahead. lean track them to their hiding place. Seel 

 there below rises the smoke of their wigwams. Send two warriors after 

 us at a short distance. We will surprise the Senecas." 



Early morning saw the camp in activity, every warrior panting for 

 the scalps he yearned to procure. Little they dreamed that already five 

 hundred Senecas awaited them in the valley. The march commenced. 

 As they entered the valley Ga-geh-djo-wit gazed anxiously around and 

 delightedly caught sight of a face among the bushes. I^ow he knew 

 the Senecas had heeded him. He led his men forward ; then, pretend- 

 ing to miss his footing, he fell. Instantly the war-cry sounded ; the 

 Senecas rushed from their ambush, and he left his treacherous foes and 

 rejoined his own people. 



The slaughter was great. All the Illinois warriors but two in the rear 

 were slain. Three hundred scalps revenged the treachery of the Illi- 

 nois. . Ga-geh-djo-wa was seized by the jubilant Senecas and borne in 

 triumph to their settlement. Around the fires, as they displayed the 

 scalps of their enemies, they listened to his recital of their cruelty, of 

 his tortures, and of the woman's death. Never again did he leave them. 

 He lived many years, the most esteemed warrior and chief of the Sen 

 ecas, and when he died they buried him with the highest honors they 

 knew, and have kept his name sacred in the legends of the tribe to this 

 day. 



traveler's jokes. 



An Indian traveler, tired of his uneventful journey, undertook to cre- 

 ate an excitement after the following fashion : An old Indian custom 

 is for runners, or those carrying important news, to announce the fact 

 and gather the people together by crying, in singing tones, "Goh-weh, 

 goh-weh." This the traveler began doing, and when the crowd called 

 upon him to stop and tell his news, he began, "As I came through the 

 last village the people were so delighted with my news that they all 

 danced for joy, and shouted and kissed me." This he told so earnestly 



