LEGEND OF GARD. 8] 
. As he wandered aimless, at last all his companions forsook him. He 
roamed alone in the mountains, and his heart was dead. 
Then it fell out, on a day, that Gard suddenly appeared to him. He 
came, as it were, out of the naked hillside, or as if by dropping from the 
sky, so sudden was the apparition. The brother of Gard stood dumb and 
still before him. He gazed upon him as upon one risen from the dead, 
and his heart was frozen. Gard said: ‘“ Listen! I have been in the land 
of spirits. I have beheld the Great Man Above. I have come back to the 
earth to bring a message to the Hupa, then I return up to the land of souls. 
The Great Man has sent me to tell the Hupa that they must dwell in 
concord with one another and the neighboring tribes. Put away from you 
all thoughts of vengeance. Wash your hearts clean. Redden your arrows 
no more in your brother’s blood. Then the Great Man will make you to 
increase greatly in this land. Ye must not only hold back your arms from 
warring and your hands from blood-guiltiness, but ye must wash your hearts 
as with water. When ye hunger no more for blood, and thirst no more 
for your enemy’s soul, when hatred and vengeance lurk no more in your 
hearts, ye shall observe a great dance. Ye shall keep the dance of peace 
which the Great Man has appointed. When ye observe it, ye shall know 
by a sign if ye are clean in your hearts. There shall be a sign of smoke 
ascending. Lut if in your hearts there is yet a corner full of hatred, that 
ye have not washed away, there shall be no sign. If in your secret minds 
ye still study vengeance, it is only a mockery that ye enact, and there shall 
be no smoke ascending ”. 
Having uttered these words, Gard was suddenly wrapped in a thick 
cloud of smoke, and the cloud floated up into the land of spirits. 
The reservation agent cherished this as a heathen parallel and 
corroboration of the story of Christ; but it is a genuine aboriginal 
legend. At any rate, they celebrate the dance of peace which this Gard 
authorized. Jor nearly twenty years it remained in abeyance, because 
during most of that period their temple of Janus had been open, as they 
were engaged in many wars, either with the whites or with neighboring 
tribes. . But in the spring of 1871 the old chiefs revived it lest the younger 
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