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morning again he saw the monster before his camp fire. It seems 

 that he had snakes in his hair and covering his shoulders and one 

 great one came up from his thighs and went over his shoulders. 

 Hayentwatha looked at Thadodaho and said " Shon-nis' ?" (who are 

 you?) The monstrous being did not reply but his face looked 

 very angry. 



Again Hayentwatha changed his camp and built a shelter on 

 one of the two islands in the lake. This spot he named Si-ye-ge. As 

 before, the monster camped silently near him. He was nearer 

 than ever before and seemed watching him from the corner of his 

 eyes. 



So then again Hayentwatha moved his camping place. He 

 crossed the lake and camped at the point on the south shore. As 

 he built his lodge he looked inland and saw seated on a knoll, the 

 monster Thadoda/ho'. He then observed that what ever move he 

 made the snake-bearing monster was ever before him. He seemed 

 to anticipate his movements. This fact frightened Hayentwatha 

 and he prepared to take up his journey again. 



His sorrow was not diminished but hung like a black cloud over 

 him. His heart was very heavy and there was no clear sky for 

 him. He carried no war weapons and the monster frightened him. 

 So Hayentwatha journeyed in his canoe up Onondaga creek. So 

 in this manner he came to the Onondaga village. How long he 

 stayed at the Onondaga town, my grandfather, Tom Commissary, 

 did not say. Some say he stayed there and married. Some say 

 he enjoined the Onondaga towns to be at peace and stop their 

 quarreling. After a time when another great sorrow came, some 

 say it was because his daughters died, he again continued his 

 journey but Thadoda/ho' went before him and Hayentwatha saw 

 him. 



So Hayentwatha went south up Onondaga creek and he came to 

 a certain spot where a brook enters the creek 1 and he saw there a 

 pond and a grassy place. There it is said he saw a very large 

 turtle and some women playing ball. Some say boys were playing 

 ball but I say that women were playing ball because my grand- 

 father said so. So Hayentwatha called this place Dwe n -the'-ga s , and 

 said from this spot comes the Ball Clan (Dwe n -the-ga s Hadi- 

 nya'-te n ') of the Great Turtle. 



Hayentwatha continued his journey and went over Bear moun- 

 tain. 2 First he camped at night at the foot of the high hill. Here 



1 A brook running through Cardiff, N. Y. 



2 Southwest of Cardiff, Lafayette township, Onondaga county. 



