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Dyon-yonh-koh and our mother Ji-kon-sah-seh," ^ and they 

 answered him and said : " She has now arrived." 



Then all those whom he had named got into the boat. Then 

 Hahyonhwatha said : " You will take as a sign that if we can get 

 across the lake in safety and the lake remains calm all the way 

 across then our message of peace will be accepted." They then 

 embarked on the lake ^ and the boat was rapidly propelled and as 

 they looked at the lake they saw that it was calm all the way across 

 and they arrived on to the shore in safety, and when they had 

 returned to where the man was sitting, Hahyonhwatha said, 

 " Everything is completed, we are now all assembled here." 



Then Dekanahwideh said : " We shall now first give thanks to 

 the Great Ruler. We will do this because our power is now com- 

 pleted." He also said : " It shall be that each nation shall now 

 have a voice in the thanksgiving and I shall therefore be the first 

 to lead. He then exclaimed " Yo hen ! " 



Then Ohdahtshedeh also repeated " Yo hen " and after 



him followed Dehkaehyonh who also repeated " Yo hen." 



The next in order was Skanyadahriyoh who also repeated '' Yo 



hen " and after him Hahyonhwatha repeated " Yo hen." 



When Dekanahwideh started to address this man, the man 

 became troubled and after all of the lords finished addressing the 

 man his sympathy was affected and he shed tears. Then Dekanah- 

 wideh s^id : " We, the delegates of" all the nations who have 

 accepted the Good Tidings of Peace and Power, are now assembled 

 here. 



" The course, therefore, that we shall now pursue is that of the 

 representatives of each nation giving utterance to their opinion 

 upon this matter." 



Ohdahtshedeh was the first to address the assembly and he said : 

 " I shall be the first to give utterance to my opinion upon this 

 matter. In my opinion this man may approve of our mission if 

 we all lay our heads before him." (This means that the nations 

 here represented would be submissive to this man Tha-do-dah-ho). 



Then Dekanahwideh and Skanyadahriyoh spoke and said : " We 

 acquiesce to all that Ohdahtshedeh has said." 



Then Dekanahwideh said to Thadodahho : " Now you will 

 answer and state if you are satisfied with the submission of these 



1 Djikon'sase is a character who should be better known in Iroquois mythol- 

 ogy. There are several traditions about her, in the various events of Iroquois 

 tradition. The name passed as a title from one generation to another. 



2 Mud Lake, or Diok'to, Otisco Lake. 



