. ... The code of Handsome Lake, the Seneca prophet . with strong drink (goniganongi).They yell and sing like demented people. Those who are in themiddle canoes do this.^ Now they are homeward bound. Now when they come to where they had left their wives andchildren these embark to return home. They go up Cornplantercreek, Awegao. Now that the party is home the men revel in strong drink andare very quarrelsome. Because of this the families becomefrightened and move away for safety. So from many places in thebushlands camp fires send up their smoke. Now the drunken men run yelling through the vi
. ... The code of Handsome Lake, the Seneca prophet . with strong drink (goniganongi).They yell and sing like demented people. Those who are in themiddle canoes do this.^ Now they are homeward bound. Now when they come to where they had left their wives andchildren these embark to return home. They go up Cornplantercreek, Awegao. Now that the party is home the men revel in strong drink andare very quarrelsome. Because of this the families becomefrightened and move away for safety. So from many places in thebushlands camp fires send up their smoke. Now the drunken men run yelling through the village and thereis no one there except the drunken men. Now they are beastlike ^ The present tense is always used by Chief Cornplanter. 2 The narrator, Handsome Lake. 3 The Seneca term is Honioo, meaning our younger brother. * The intoxicated men were put in the middle canoes to prevent theirjumping into the water. The more sober men paddled from the outercanoes. This debauchery was common among the Six Nations at the be-ginning of the 19th THE CODE OF HANDSOME LAKE 21 and run about without clothing and all have weapons to injurethose whom they meet. Now there are no doors left in the houses for they have all beenkicked off. So, also, there are no fires in the village and have notbeen for many days. Now the men full of strong drink havetrodden in the fireplaces. They alone track there and there are nofires and their footprints are in all the fireplaces. Now the dogs yelp and cry in all the houses for they are hungry. So this is what happens.^ THE SICK MAN And now furthermore a man becomes sick. Some strong powerholds him. Now as he lies in sickness he meditates and longs that he mightrise again and walk upon the earth. So he implores the GreatRuler to give hi ii strength that he may walk upon this earth then he thinks how evil and loathsome he is before the GreatRuler. He thinks how he has been evil ever since he had strengthin this world and done evil ever s
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