t our Council. Lend us your
magic tomahawks. Lend us your arrows of flint. Lend us your knives
of jade. I am the Great Chief, but ye are greater chiefs than I.

"Of old time the nations wandered and warred.

"Ye were wonderful who established the Great Peace.

"Assuredly six generations before the pale-faces appeared, ye
smoked the redstone pipe together, giving white wampum to show that
war would cease.

"Thenceforth ye bound the nations with a Silver Chain; ye built the
Long House; ye established the Great League.

"First Hiawatha of the Onondaga nation proposed it; then
Dekanawidah of the Mohawks joined him; then Atotarho, my mighty
ancestor.

"First the Mohawks; then their younger brothers, the Oneidas,
joined them; then the Cayugas; then the Onondagas, then the
Senecas; and then the Tuscaroras were added. Victorious were the
SIX NATIONS!"

With a piercing cry of triumph the chiefs sprang up and brandished their
tomahawks.

"Then we took the sons of the Wyandots, the Eries, the Algonquins.
Wherever we found the son of a brave man we adopted him. Wherever
we found a brave man we made him a chief.

"Here is the son of a brave man, our friend. Let us adopt him. Be
ye his grandsires, oh ye chiefs of old!

"He is a brave man; let us make him a chief. Our forefathers said:
'Thither shall he be led by the hand, and shall be placed on the
principal seat.'

"Smoke the peace-pipe with us, chiefs of old, Hiawatha,
Dekanawidah, Atotarho, us who bear your names, to-day, being
descended of your blood through the line of the mother."

"Brighten the Silver Chain, extend the Long House, smoke the magic
pipe, sharpen his tomahawk, for he is a son of your League, and
shall sit with you in the Council for ever, bearing the name of
Arahseh, 'Our Cousin,' and the totem of the Wolf.

"Smoke the peace-pipe, Arahseh, 'Our Cousin.'"

The tom-tom beat furiously and the six chiefs leaping up and circling
round Germain, struck the air with their tomahawks and cried together--

"Continue to listen
Ye who are braves;
Ye who established the Great League,
Continue to listen."

They gave the peace-pipe to Germain, and again seating themselves in
semicircle, gravely passed it from lip to lip.

Gradually the settlers during these rites began to learn by th