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know that I was so strange a man," he said. " My mode of living 

 must be wrong." Then he said : " Let me look again and be sure 

 that what I have seen is true." Then he arose, went to the kettle 

 and looked into it again, and he saw the same object — the face 

 of a great man and it was looking at him. Then he took the kettle 

 and went out and went toward the hillside and he emptied it there. 



Then Dekanahwideh came down from the roof and made great 

 haste toward the hillside, and when Tha-do-dah-ho came up the 

 hill he met Dekanahwideh. 



Dekanahwideh asked Tah-do-dah-ho where he came from and he 

 said, " I had cooked my meal and I took the kettle from the fire 

 and placed it on the floor. I thought that I would take some of the 

 meat out of the kettle and then I saw a man's face looking at me 

 from the kettle. I do not know what had happened; I only know 

 such a thing never occurred to me before as long as I have been 

 living in this house. Now I have come to the conclusion that I 

 must be wrong in the way I am and the way I have been living. 

 That is why I carried the kettle out of my house and emptied it 

 over there by the stump. I was returning when I met you." Then 

 he said, " From whence did you come ?" 



Dekanahwideh answered, "I came from the west and am going 

 eastward." 



Then the man said, " Who are you that is thus speaking to me ? " 



Then Dekanahwideh said, " It is he who is called Dekanahwideh 

 in this world." Dekanahwideh then asked : " From whence have 

 you come ? " 



The man then said : " There is a settlement to which I belong 

 but I left that settlement a long time ago." 



Then Dekanahwideh said, " You will now return, for peace and 

 friendship have come to you and your settlement and you have novv^ 

 repented the course of wrong doing which you pursued in times 

 past. It shall now also occur that when you return to your settle- 

 ment you, yourself, shall promote peace and friendship for it is a 

 fact that peace is now ruling in your settlement and I want you to 

 arrange and settle all matters." Then Dekanahwideh also said : 

 " I shall arrive there early tomorrow morning. I shall visit the 

 \ west first. I shall visit there the house of the woman, Ji-kon- 



"^^ sah-seh. The reason why I shall do this (go and visit this woman 

 first) is because the path passes there which runs from the east to 

 the west." 

 r\ Then after saying these words Dekanahwideh went on his way 



and arrived at the house of Ji-kon-sah-seh and said to her that he 



