38. _Etho yeshotonnyh tekadarakehne_, "then his uncles of the two clans." The five chiefs who follow probably bore some peculiar political relation to Rononghwireghton. The first two in modern times are of the Deer clan; the last three are of the Eel clan. It is probable that they all belonged originally, with him, to one clan, that of the Wolf, and consequently to one class, which was afterwards divided into three. _Kawenenseronton_ (Onon., _Kawenensenton_). A word of doubtful meaning; one interpreter thought it meant "her voice suspended." _Haghriron_ (Onon., _Hahihon_), "spilled," or "scattered." 39. _Wahhondennonterontye_. This word has already occurred, with a different orthography, and is explained in the Note to Section 36. _Ronyennyennih_ (Onon., _Honyennyenni_). No satisfactory explanation could be obtained of this word. Chief John Buck did not know its meaning. _Shodakwarashonh_ (Onon., _Shotegwashen_), "he is bruised." _Shakokenghne_ (Onon. _Shahkohkenneh_), "he saw them." As stated above, the three chiefs in this class are of the Eel clan. 40. _Shihonadewiraralye_, "they had children," or, rather, "they continued to get children." Mr. Bearfoot writes in regard to this word: "Yodewirare, a fowl hatching, referring to the time when they were forming the league, when they were said to be hatching, or producing, the children mentioned--i.e., the other tribes who were taken into the confederacy." _Tehhodidarakeh_, "these the two clans." Taken in connection with the preceding lines of the chant, it seems probable that this expression refers to the introduction of other clans into the Council besides the original three, the Bear, Wolf and Tortoise, which existed when the confederacy was formed. _Raserhaghrhonh_ (Onon., _Sherhakwi_), "wearing a hatchet in his belt," from _asera_, hatchet. This chief is of the Tortoise clan. _Etho wahhoronghyaronnyon_, "this put away the clouds." These "clouds," it is said, were the clouds of war, which were dispelled by the great chief whose name is thus introduced, _Skanawadyh_, or as now spelt, _Skanawati_. He had the peculiar distinction of holding two offices, which were rarely combined. He was both a high chief, or "Lord of the Council," and a "Great Warrior." In former times the members of the Great Council seldom assumed executive duties. They were rarely sent out as ambassadors or as leaders of war-parties. These duties were usually entrusted to the ablest chiefs of the second rank, who were known as "Great Warriors," _rohskenrakehte-kowa_. Skanawati was an exception to this rule. It would seem that the chief who first bore this title had special aptitudes, which have come down in his family. A striking instance, given in the "_Relations_" of the Jesuit missionaries among the Hurons, has been admirably reproduced by Mr. Parkman in the twenty-third chapter of his "Jesuits in North America," and cannot be better told than in his words.