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contact with a log and I shall then join with you" (meaning that 

 he, Ohdahtshedeh, would be lying in wait for them and when they 

 should come to the log, which means his settlement, he could ac- 

 company them). Then Ohdahtshedeh further said that he would 

 agree to appoint two delegates to go and look for smoke (smoke 

 means settlements). 



Then Ohdahtshedeh said : " It is now left with you, the war- 

 riors, as to which of you will volunteer to go." 



Then the chief warrior said : " I shall be one of those who 

 volunteer to go." Then Ohdahtshedeh also said : " There is one 

 more required to go; who will therefore volunteer?" 



For a long time no one gave answer. Then Ohdahtshedeh asked 

 the cjuestion anew and still again no one answered. Then 

 Ohdahtshedeh said : " I shall ask the question once again, for the 

 last time, and if any one desires to volunteer let him speak at 

 once ", and from the outside of the gathering a man spoke out and 

 said that he would be one of the volunteers. 



Then Dekanahwideh said, '' Go and call that man who is speak- 

 ing from the outside." The man was called in and he was asked 

 to stand by the chief warrior in the meeting. Then Dekanahwideh 

 said to the chief warrior : " You are the first to accede to the 

 request of the lord to volunteer, therefore, your duty shall be to 

 obey orders whenever the (lord) has any duties to give you." Then 

 Dekanahwideh said to the warrior who was the second to volunteer : 

 "As you came frgm the outside of the meeting, you shall therefore 

 in the future be an assistant to the chief warrior in his duties, and 

 whenever the chief warrior assigns his duties to you, you shall 

 perform his duties and carry out his instructions." Then Dekanah- 

 wideh said: "It is now completed; you have all been assigned 

 your duties. You will now go and search for the smoke and 

 wherever you see smoke you shall go there and when you arrive 

 there you shall see the lord of the settlement, then you shall tell 

 him your message. You will say we were sent here by the lords 

 (Ro-de-ya-ners-onh) who take you by the hand and invite you to 

 the place of meeting. You will say to the lord you will send dele- 

 gates and on their way to the conference to pass where the lord 

 lives at the big mountain and you shall invite him to accompany 

 you. Then if the lord asks you the place of meeting you shall 

 say, ' by the lake where lives the Great Wizard who calls out in 

 the loud-toned voice.' " 



They then separated, the chief warrior and his assistant going 

 on their mission, and Dekanahwideh and Hahyonhwatha going to 



