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                                  Divining stone                          p. 9
 Priests for hunters. It appears that some parents devoted their infant sons to the life of hunters, or rather to the service of priests with hunters. But generally young men devoted themselves to a hunters life. In this case they made their purpose known to a priest for hunters, whose business it was to train young men for hunting. Suppose this was between March and September, then on the first appearance of the new moon in September the priest gave his pupil a purifying drink, which cleansed them internally by puking them, and externally by being washed with it. He then ordered them to a river, where after praying with them he bid them plunge s even times as in common cases of purifying. He then gave them directions to hunt and the first buck they killed was for sacrifice, i.e. the tongue. This being taken and preserved as usual was taken to the priest, who then offered a sacrifice for them. The same ceremonies were gone through also at the first appearance of the new moon in March. 
 Having thus initiated the pupils must keep entirely separate from women four years, and at the first appearance of the new moon in September and March, they went through the same ceremonies as mentioned above.
At the end of the four years the priest prepared a place for sweating them. This was made by bending sticks and putting both ends in the ground and covering them with skins or blankets, making a tent so as to resemble an umbrella set open on the ground.   This had the same name as a hot house, crowded his pupils into this tent, put hot stones in the midst, and poured water on them, and by means of the steam sweat his pupils very profusely. This tent being on the beach of a river, when the young men were in a profuse sweat, the priest ordered them into the river, where they plunged in the usual form seven times.   On coming out of the river, the priest after consulting his U lu sa ta or Divining Stone,

gave them permission to marry if they saw fit, only on all hunting expeditions they were not to intercours with women. The hunters feast was in September to prepare for hunting & in March to purify themselves after hunting In preparing