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warriors repair to a stream of water, and plunge themselves seven times, in times with their heads to the east and [unclear] times with their heads to the west. This being done all repair to their homes, and associate with their wives & friends as usual, being purified from the difilements of war. But such as had been wounded must continue seven years at the council house in a state of separation. Though they might dance with others, yet they must always carry a certain kind of staff by which they might be known, and could not associate with their wives, suppose the event to war & killed none of their enemies, it was supposed the diamond will kill them unless they offered a sacrifice, They therefore all turned out to hunt, & thus processed a deer's tongue for a sacrifice. None must touch or eat the flesh of the deer till the sacrifice was offered. Br.