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534 25 When an enemy approached a town suddenly, the war priest, with a loud voice, spake, & called the warriors to arms. But when the people of the Town [crossed out: were] lived so scattered as not to be able to hear his voice, he raised the war whoop, which was immediately caught by all the warriors who heard it, and [?reechoed?] in every part of the town. Each warrior on raising the war whoop, started for the place of rendezvous, i.e the house of the war priest, who, on their arrival immediately sounded the war trumpet (of the Thigh bone of a crane) and pitched battle. But suppose another nation sent a challenge, or made a declaration of war, The news of this coming to the captain of the host, or the principal war priest, he consulted his seven counsellors & returned answer that he would meet the nation thus challenging them, and immediately dispatched his runners to the nighest war priest: and he again his, and thus runners were were on the wing night & day till the whole nation was informed. Each war priest, on recieving the message, & starting his runner to the next town, either called his men by a loud talk, or by the war whoop, & immediately set forward. On arriving