of the list is the leading Canienga chief, Tekarihoken, who represents
the noblest lineage of the Iroquois stock. Next to him, and second on
the roll, is the name of Hiawatha. That of his great colleague,
Dekanawidah, nowhere appears. He was a member of the first council; but
he forbade his people to appoint a successor to him. "Let the others
have successors," he said proudly, "for others can advise you like
them. But I am the founder of your league, and no one else can do what I
have done." [Footnote: In Mr. Morgan's admirable work, "_The League of
the Iroquois_," the list of Councillors (whom he styles
_sachems_), comprises the name of Dekanawidah--in his orthography,
Daganoweda. During my last visit to my lamented friend (in September,
1880), when we examined together my copy of the then newly discovered
Book of Rites, in which he was greatly interested, this point was
considered. The original notes which he made for his work were
examined. It appeared that in the list as it was first written by him,
from the dictation of a well-informed Seneca chief, the name of
Dekanawidah was not comprised. A later, but erroneous suggestion, from
another source, led him to believe that his first informant was
mistaken, or that he had misunderstood him, and to substitute the name
of Dekanawidah for the somewhat similar name of Shatekariwate (in Seneca
Sadekeiwadeh), which stands third on the roll, immediately following
that of Hiawatha. The term _sachem_, it may be added, is an
Algonkin word, and one which Iroquois speakers have a difficulty in
pronouncing. Their own name for a member of their Senate is
_Royaner_, derived from the root _yaner_, noble, and precisely
equivalent in meaning to the English "nobleman" or "lord," as applied to
a member of the House of Peers. It is the word by which the missionaries
have rendered the title "Lord" in the New Testament.]

The boast was not unwarranted. Though planned by another, the structure