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very little and just after dark. In the meantime, the hunters were out in quest of their game; --- all the ceremonies of taking which, --- and of its disposal afterwards, ___ conformed precisely to those adopted at the Second Great Festival the Sah, looh, stu-knee, keeh steh steeh, --- ___ Preliminary, or New Green Corn Feast. __ Simultaneously with the hunt, seven articles for purification were sought. These consisted of evergreens and were as follows: cedar, white pine, hemlock, misletoe, evergreen briar, heartleaf, and ginseng root. Though the top of this last dies in winter, yet as the root does not, it is placed among the evergreens employed on this occasion. Probably from the impossibility of always obtaining the foregoing articles, some say the following were used in more modern times, --- bark from mountain birch trees and the sprigs of another kind of mountain birch, which grows only in shrubs; ___ willow roots, such as grow in the banks of streams, so as to be exposed to the water, and which had thus been long washed by the stream; ___ swamp dogwood roots, which growing in the same position, had been similarly washed by the stream; ___ misletoe; ___ spruce pine; ___ and the bark of A, ta, sv, ki, or perfume wood, __ probably a third variety of mountain birch. ____ These were fastened into a cane basket, expressly fashioned for the purpose; ___ and on the evening

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