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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  Neth-no 
  na-sne 
  jo-en-sna; 
  Hai, 
  hai 
  ! 
  

   Ka-ris-wis-sa-nongh-we 
  ; 
  Hai, 
  hai 
  ! 
  

   Ka-ya-ne-renh-go-wa-ne 
  ; 
  Hai, 
  hai 
  ! 
  

   Wa-ka-righ-wa-ka-yon-ha 
  ; 
  Hai, 
  hai 
  ! 
  

   Ne-his-ta-ha-wis-ton 
  ; 
  Hai, 
  hai, 
  hai, 
  hados 
  ! 
  

  

  Translation 
  

   Hail, 
  hail, 
  hail, 
  hail 
  ! 
  Continue 
  thou 
  to 
  listen, 
  

  

  Thou 
  who 
  wert 
  a 
  ruler, 
  

  

  Dekarihoken! 
  

  

  Continue 
  thou 
  to 
  listen, 
  

  

  Thou 
  who 
  wert 
  a 
  ruler, 
  

  

  Hiawatha! 
  

  

  Continue 
  to 
  listen, 
  

  

  Thou 
  who 
  wert 
  a 
  ruler, 
  

  

  Siiatckariivathc! 
  Hail, 
  hail! 
  

  

  That 
  was 
  the 
  roll 
  of 
  yon, 
  

   You 
  who 
  were 
  joined 
  in 
  the 
  work, 
  

   You 
  who 
  completed 
  the 
  work, 
  the 
  Great 
  League. 
  

   Your 
  work 
  has 
  grown 
  old, 
  what 
  we 
  have 
  established 
  

   You 
  have 
  taken 
  with 
  you 
  ! 
  Alas 
  ! 
  alas 
  ! 
  alas 
  ! 
  alas 
  ! 
  

  

  The 
  dead 
  feast 
  

  

  Preceding 
  the 
  greater 
  and 
  official 
  condolence 
  there 
  was 
  one 
  con- 
  

   nected 
  with 
  or 
  following 
  upon 
  burial. 
  The 
  dead 
  feast 
  of 
  the 
  Hu- 
  

   rons 
  has 
  been 
  often 
  described 
  from 
  the 
  Relations, 
  but 
  had 
  no 
  

   recorded 
  equivalent 
  in 
  New 
  York 
  though 
  this 
  singular 
  custom 
  was 
  

   undoubtedly 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  western 
  part. 
  At 
  intervals 
  of 
  a 
  few 
  

   years 
  several 
  towns 
  would 
  agree 
  on 
  a 
  common 
  feast 
  or 
  meeting 
  of 
  

   this 
  kind. 
  When 
  the 
  time 
  came 
  all 
  the 
  bodies 
  of 
  the 
  dead 
  were 
  

   brought 
  to 
  the 
  chosen 
  town, 
  borne 
  by 
  their 
  friends 
  in 
  long 
  proces- 
  

   sions, 
  while 
  the 
  cry 
  of 
  the 
  souls 
  was 
  heard 
  through 
  the 
  forests. 
  

   The 
  corpse 
  of 
  yesterday 
  and 
  that 
  of 
  several 
  years 
  standing 
  alike 
  

   had 
  an 
  honorable 
  place. 
  Funeral 
  games 
  followed 
  until 
  the 
  final 
  

   ceremony 
  came. 
  The 
  ghastly 
  loads 
  were 
  then 
  resumed 
  and 
  borne 
  

   in 
  funeral 
  pomp 
  to 
  the 
  great 
  pit 
  where 
  all 
  were 
  interred. 
  Hundreds 
  

   were 
  thus 
  placed 
  in 
  a 
  common 
  grave. 
  

  

  