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67 right foot, and drew it to his breast, & from thence to the great toe nail of his left foot. He then drew two red stripes from the forehead to the backside of the head passing each side of the crown.

 The candidate having received the war club, and the four attendants having taken their seats, (enquire again) his predecessor arose and addressed the warriors, charging

them to obey implicitly the new chief, and never go to war without his knowledge and direction, and then resigned his own authority to the young man. The candidate then addressed the war counsellors, th[en?]] "You have now put me in blood to my knees. But in war I shall not bloody my hands by destroying infants, or the aged who cannot help themselves. But if in my path, any tribe or people raise the war whoop, and I see weapons of war in their hands, I will fight, and conquor, or die. you have made me A ska ye gu stu e go, (great war chief) and I shall endeavor to take care of my young warriors, and never expose them in war unnecessarily. Thus all in the house shouted waweh.

Then all in the house, both civil and war chiefs, and young warriors went individually and took the young chief by the hand, calling him their uncle, and thus acknowledging his

superiority, and also intimating his duty to guard and defend them.

This was about noon,  The young chief, his four attendants, & all the officers of government, both civil and military continued on their seats all that day and night, and the next day till noon. Then victuals were taken into the round house, and placed before the white seats of the civil & the red seats of the war chiefs.  Boys served them with water. The young

warriors and all except the officers of counsel repaired to seven houses in the town, where victuals had been provided. But in case there were strangers present from other tribes, they might eat in the council house after the counsellors had eaten. The day after his consecration, at noon, the new chief arose walked to the door of the council house, and in the door said, Now I am going home. To which all responded waweh. Then the next in authority of the war chiefs, did the same, & received the same response? And thus till all the war & civil officers had left the house but one. Then he arose, went to the door, and said the same as the others, but without any response. Some of the war chiefs, next in rank, accompanied the young warrior to his house.