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42 not to live long. The meat would pop, and some little piece would fly towards him. But if the meat flew in any other direction, the omen was good.

    After this the boy might see a woman, and eat common, though clean food.
    It is said that persons initiated as above into sacred offices, could see as well in the night as in the day, had proven to kill witches etc. etc.
    The great warrior, tska yu sta eya, - the great speaker ska . li la ski, and the standard bearer were thus prepared, as were also the war priest and the physician, (perhaps man in the army - (Enquire.) unclear, also, and all the civil priests who used the tru lu sa ta. But among civil priests we do not include all such as officiated merely in hunting feasts, or in finding things lost. +
    Some parents educated their sons to a hunters life, but the ceremonies in this case, I have not learned.
    But when young men dedicated themselves to the life of a hunter, they made this purpose known to a priest whose business it was to train up young men for hunting. On the first appearance of the strike outs New moon in March, the priest gave his pupil to drink, and to wash himself with a kind of purifying drink. This strike out operated as an emetic. He then oriented? him to a river, where he plunged seven times, * probably put on clean clothes. He was then ordered to hunt, & on killing a buck, & to took the tongue as usual, which the priest offered in sacrifice for him.
    The same ceremonies were gone through at the first appearance of the new moon in September. Thus for four years such young men were under the care of the priest for hunting, and during this time they must have no intercourse with women. 
    At the end of the four years, the priest prepared