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have received the Good Tidings of Peace and Power. We shall 

 therefore take power from them which will enable us to complete 

 the work we have undertaken to accomplish." 



They then heard the loud toned voice saying: "A-soh-kek-ne 



eh " (it is not yet ; which means, impatiently waiting). Then 



Dekanahwideh said : " It is now very urgent for us to proceed on 

 our journey to the place from whence this voice proceeds." They 

 then went and they had not gone far when they came to a lake. 

 Then Dekanahwideh said : " It is now left with you to decide 

 what we shall do ; you have seen the lake and it is beside this lake 

 that the man lives whose loud voice you have heard saying: 

 'Asohkene eh.' " 



Dekanahwideh then also said : " There are two ways which we 

 can pursue to get across the lake, and you can have your choice. 

 We can take the boat which you see lying fiat on the ground and 

 paddle over or we can magically pass above the lake, and so get 

 over it." Dekanahwideh also said : " That man whom you heard 

 calling in a loud voice is able to cause the boat to upset if he sees 

 it and the people within it to become drowned ; he has ended the 

 lives of many people in this way in the lake." 1 



Then Hahyonhwatha said : " My choice is that we pass over 

 above the lake." Then Dekanahwideh said : " It is best to ap- 

 proach this man from behind ; the reason we should do this is that 

 he has been so long impatiently waiting that it would not be wise 

 to approach him from the front and it might cause trouble." Then 

 Dekanahwideh also said : " We shall now therefore proceed on 

 our journey." 



Then they went on their journey and arrived at the other side 

 of the lake. They had not gone far when Hahyonhwatha saw the 

 man sitting on a high knoll where it was his custom to sit. When 

 silently they arrived where he was sitting, Dekanahwideh stood on 

 the right side and Hahyonhwatha on the left. The man had not yet 

 seen them when he called again : "A-soh-kek-ne eh ! " 



Then Hahyonhwatha saw what this man was doing and as soon 

 as the man called out in the loud voice the lake became very rough 

 and troubled and great billows formed on its surface. 



Then Dekanahwideh spoke and said : " I have now returned 



Neuter Nation (Atirhagenrat), the Erie (Djikon'saseoano') and others, 

 including the Delaware and some southern tribes, were invited into the 

 confederacy. 

 1 Onondaga lake at a point near the present village of Liverpool. 



