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river are totally bewildered and fail to see a way out of the 

 difficulty." ^ 



Then Dekanahwideh said : " I now fully understand everything 

 and I will encourage you with reference to this matter which has 

 occurred to you. You are not alone for many have accepted the 

 message of Good Tidings of Peace and Power. Therefore, owing 

 to that which has occurred to you, you (the lord) whose abode is 

 on this east side of the river and to whom the message first came 

 shall be known in the land by the name of Ska-nya-dah-ri-yoh,^ and 

 you, the lord who came from over the river who has agreed in mind 

 with your colleague on this side of the river, shall be called in the 

 land by the name of Sa-denka-ronh-yes." "^ 



Then Dekanahwideh also said : " This is now completer' Now 

 it is for you to make ready, for in a little while a man will come 

 whom you will accompany to the conference." They then in the 



distance heard the man call, "A-soh-kek-ne eh," meaning 



" It is not yet." 



Then Hahyonhwatha distinctly heard where he was. Then 

 Hahyonhwatba said to his colleague : " The time is now come 

 when we should go to the conference." They then started to go 

 to the place appointed for the conference and they arrived at the 

 place where the log (the Lord Ohdahtshedeh) was lying across 

 the path. 



Ohdahtshedeh said : " We have been impatiently waiting for 

 we have heard the man calling with a loud voice now for a long 

 time. It is at the place appointed for the meeting of the" 

 conference." 



Then Hahyonhwatha said : " Let us now proceed to the con- 

 ference." They then went to the conference. Then Dekanahwideh 

 said, " I shall now return to my abode and we shall all meet at 

 the place appointed for the conference." Then the Lords Deh-ka- 

 eh-yonh, Ji-non-dah-weh-hon * and Dyon-yonh-koh came from their 

 settlement and when they arrived at the abode of Skanyadahriyoh, 

 they said that the lords had decided and arranged that all should 

 call here on their way to the conference and that they were to 

 invite all to accompany them. 



1 The difficulties of the Senecas are related in all versions of this tradition. 

 Two separate bodies of the Senecas are described in nearly all stories of the 

 origin of the league. 



2 Ganiodai'io' (Seneca), Handsome Lake. 



3 Sadegai'yes (Onondaga), or Dyadegaihyes. 

 ^ Djinondawe'ho°'. 



