THE CONSTITUTION OF THE FIVE NATIONS 89 



Dekanahwideh said : '' You, the wind and the lake, be still, for 

 we have not crossed the water yet." Then again the lake became 

 calm. Then Hahyonhwatha began to paddle hard and the boat 

 went bO swiftly that when they reached the shore, the boat plowed 

 deeply into the dry land on the shore bank. 



Then Dekanahwideh said : " We will now get out of the boat 

 for we have now arrived at the place where we desire to go." 

 Then he got out and the other lords followed him and they con- 

 tinued on their journey and they had only gone a short distance 

 when they beheld a man sitting on a high, round knoll and when 

 they arrived where he was sitting they stood all around him and 

 Dekanahwideh stood directly in front of him, then he spoke and 

 said : " We have now arrived, we representing the four nations. 

 You will therefore now answer the message which we have left 

 here with you. These lords who now stand all around you have 

 now accepted the Good Tidings of Peace and Power, which signi- 

 fies that hereafter the shedding of human blood shall cease, for 

 our Creator the Great Ruler never intended that man should engage 

 in any such work as the destruction of human life. There are 

 many who have perished in the direction you are now facing, and 

 these lords have come to induce you to join them so that the shed- 

 ding of human blood might cease and the Good Tidings of Peace 

 and Power might prevail." 



Then the man looked around and saw these' men (the lords) 

 standing all around him, but he did not answer but kept silent. 

 Then these lords looked at his head while he was sitting on the 

 ground and they saw his hair moving as if it were all alive and 

 they saw that the movements of the hair greatly resembled that of 

 serpents, and they looked at his hands and saw that his fingers were 

 twisting and contorting continually in all directions and in all man- 

 ner of shapes, and they became impatient because he would not 

 answer the message. 



Then Dekanahwideh said to Hahyonhwatha : " You shall now 

 recross the lake and the chief warrior and De-ha-rih-ho-ken and 

 Dyon-yonh-koh and our mother Ji-kon-sah-seh, shall accompany 

 you back in the boat (when you return here)." 



Then the man who was sitting on the ground smiled a little. 

 Then Hahyonhwatha hurriedly went back and reembarked in the 

 boat and recrossed the lake and when he had come to shore on the 

 other side of the lake, they asked what had occurred. 



Hahyonhwatha answered and said : " It is not yet complete, I 

 have therefore come after the chief warrior, De-ha-rih-ho-ken and 



