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Nations) also arose. Chief Buck then sang in long, low, mournful tones 

 the following chant in the Onondaga language : 



Now listen, ye who established the Great League,* 



Now it has become old — 



Now there is nothing but wilderness, 



Ye are in your graves who established it — 



Ye have taken it with you, and have placed it under you. 



And there is nothing left but a desert. 



There you have taken your intellects with you. 



What ye established ye have taken with you. 



Ye have placed under your heads what ye established — 



The Great League. 



Then the other chiefs joined in the chorus as follows, which is also 

 given in the Indian tongue : 



Haih-haih ! 



Jig-atk-on-tek! 



Ni-yon-Kha ! 



Haih-haih ! 



Te-joe-ka-wa-yen-ton. 



.Haih-haih ! 

 Ska-hen-1 a-hen- yon. 

 Haih ! 

 Sha-tyher-arta — 

 Hot-yi-wis-ah-on-gwe — 

 Haih! 

 Ka-yau-een-go-ha. 

 Ne-ti-kea-en-ho-nen 

 Ne-ne Ken-yoi-wat-at-ye — 

 Ka-yan-cen-go-ha. 

 Haih! 

 Wa-hai - wak-ay-on-nhe-ha. 

 Haih ! 

 Net-ho-wat-yon-gwen-ten-the. 



Woe! Woe! 



Hearken ye! 



We are diminished! 



Woe! Woe! 



The clear land has become a thicket. 



Woe ! Woe ! 



The clear places are deserted. 



Woe! 



They are in their graves — 



They who established it — 



Woe ! 



The Great League. 



Yet they declared, 



It should endure — 



The Great League. 



Woe! 



Their work has grown old. 



Woe! 



Thus we are become miserable. 



When they finished, some thirty representatives of the Six Nations 

 marched down from the stand in Indian file, and ranged themselves by 

 the sides of the caskets. 



Chief Buck, who had been chosen to deliver the address of condo- 

 lence, spoke in Onondaga for a few minutes, the other chiefs listening 

 with bowed heads. The chant was again repeated. Many of the audi- 

 ence were moved to tears at the strange sight and melancholy sounds. 



Chief John Jacket, a Seneca sachem, followed the lowering of the re- 

 mains by a speech in Seneca, which was replied to by Chief Buck in the 

 Onondaga tongue, and a benediction was pronounced by the Rev. Al- 

 bert Anthony, a Delaware, from the Grand River Agency. This closed 

 the exercises at the grave. 



In the evening commemorative exercises were held at Music Hall. 



* The League of the Iroquois or Five Nations. Consult Morgan ; Hale's "Book of Kites/' a most ad- 

 mirable work : Parkmau. &c. 



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