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for a double object. We are here hunting game for our living and 

 also because there is a great strife in our settlement." 



Then Dekanahwideh said, " You will now return to the place 

 from whence you came. The reason that this occurs is because 

 the Good Tidings of Peace and Friendship have come to the people, 

 and you will find all strife removed from your settlement when you 

 go back to your home. And I want you to tell your chief that the 

 Ka-rih-wi-yoh 1 (Good Tidings of Peace and Power) have come 

 and if he asks you from whence came the Good Tidings of Peace 

 and Power, you will say that the Messenger of the Good Tidings 

 of Peace and Power will come in a few days. 



Then the man said : " Who are you now speaking to me ? " 



Dekanahwideh answered : " It is I who came from the west and 

 am going eastward and am called Dekanahwideh in the world." 



Then the man wondered and beheld his canoe and saw that his 

 canoe was made out of white stone. 



Then Dekanahwideh said, " I will go and visit Tyo-den-he deh 2 

 first." Dekanahwideh then went down the bank and got into his 

 boat, and passed on. Then the man also turned away and went 

 home, and when he came back to the camp he said : " I saw a strange 

 man coming from the lake with a canoe made out of white stone 

 and when he landed he came up the bank and I had a conversation 

 with him. First, he asked me where I came from and when I told 

 him he understood everything. 3 Then he said : " You will all go 

 home for there is now peace, and all strife has been removed from 

 the settlement." 



Then the party went home and as soon as they reached home, 

 they went and told the Royaner 4 (lord) and said that the Good 

 Tidings of Peace and Power had come. Then the lord asked the 

 speaker who told him the message and then he said that he saw a 

 man who was called Dekanahwideh in the world. Then the lord 

 asked him from whence the Good Tidings of Peace and Strength 

 were coming. 



1 Karhihwiio, or in Seneca, Ne"Ga'ihwiio, meaning a proclamation of good 



. iterally the word is interpreted, A good message. The mis- 

 -■^«orV<! T\m the word rrn -i-h wi-io for Gospel. The power of the new civil 

 government is called skefi'no 11 ', meaning inherent potence. 



2 Tiodenhe'de, meaning He (having died) lives again, cf. Siga'hedus, He 

 resurrects, used as a name for Christ. 



3 Dekanawida is reputed to have been a clairvoyant. 



4 Royaner is hoya'ne in Seneca. The Mohawk root-equivalent is Ya"nerhe. 

 Royaner means excellent, noble, good, exalted, pure. Thus as a title the 

 name is translated Lord. Missionaries so use the name, cf. Hale Book of 

 Rites, p. 65. 





