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their distress, determined to relieve them of the merciless invaders, 

 and transforming himself to a stone giant, came down to the 

 earth and united with their tribe. 



Wonderstruck at his marvelous display of power, they made 

 him their chief; and he brandished his club high in the air, saying, 

 :i Now we will destroy the Iroquois, make a great feast of them, 

 and invite all the Stone Giants of the sky." In pretense of this 







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Member of the False Face Company impersonating the Stone Giant 



intention, the Sky Holder led them to a strong fort of the On-on- 

 da-gas where he bade them hide in a deep hollow in the valley 

 and await the sunrise, when they would attack and destroy the 

 unsuspecting people. But before day, he scaled a high place above 

 them and overwhelmed them with a great mass of rocks. Only 

 one escaped, who fled to the Alleghany mountains. There he 

 secreted himself in a cave, where he remained and grew in huge 

 strength, when he was transformed to the myth Giant, Ga-nus- 

 quah. 



