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done as I came to you with the message of Good Tidings of Peace 

 and Power." 



Then the lord said : " I shall therefore entertain you myself. 

 This will be done because the message which you have brought to 

 us may be the same as the other man's for which we are waiting, 

 and he has sent word that he is coming." Then Hahyonhwatha 

 said : " I approve of all this." 



The assembled people then dispersed and when night came the 

 lord told Hahyonhwatha that he could sleep in the inner room. 

 Then he (Hahyonhwatha) went in and retired. Shortly after he 

 heard a voice outside which said: "Are you stopping here?" and 

 Hahyonhwatha replied, " Yes." Now the voice from outside said 

 that it was very urgent for him to come out. 



So Hahyonwatha went out and he saw Dakanahwideh standing 

 outside. Dekanahwideh then said: "It is now urgent that we 

 proceed directly on our journey.^ You have now accomplished all 

 that is" necessary to be done here at present; we can go to another 

 settlement now and afterwards return. The man you are now 

 waiting for will likely have returned by that time." 



" There is one settlement left to be visited, although I have been 

 there before and had conversation with the man. I have promised 

 him that I will visit him again and for that reason when you left 

 home you heard a loud toned voice in front of you saying, 'A-son- 

 kek-ne-eh.' 2 We will now proceed on our journey." 



They then went and while they were on their way Dekanahwideh 

 said, " Let us stop here and wait a while, and you will look toward 

 the southeast. So they stood still and Hahyonhwatha looked toward 

 the southeast and saw the smoke arising and reaching to the sky. 



Then Dekanahwideh asked: "What do you see?" 



Hahyonhwatha said: "I see smoke piercing the sky." 



Then Dekanahwideh answered : " That smoke which you saw is 

 where the abode of Dyon-yon-ko is. The reason you see the smoke 

 piercing the sky is because the Good Tidings of Peace and Power 

 have come to the people of that settlement but unfortunately, owing 

 to the selfishness and lack of energy of these people, the Good 

 Tidings of Peace and Power have not prospered and have not 

 extended to other settlements.^ It is thus good that these people 



1 Baptist Thomas says Hiawatha left this council because of a dispute on 

 the part of the people, who forgot him in their effort to honor another man. 



2 " It has not yet occurred," asoii'de'nei'. 



3 It is said that the New England Indians (Adirhon'daks), the Cherokee 

 (Oya'de), the Wyandott (Thastahetci), the Tionante (Tyonontate'ka'), the 



