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• Note The night previous to marking was spent in entire wakefulness. Early the next - crossed out in the morning, the priest + ordered all to the water where each plunged

seven times with their fist toward the east, then the west, alternately. On returning, the priest offered sacrifice with the new fire made for the war, & which had not been used before. This was kindled with the seven kinds of wood common for sacrifice. This was just as the sun arose. In offering the sacrifice the priest stood facing the east, & all the warriors, forming a semicircle about him, having the span open toward the east. He then put the meat (deer tongue) onto the fire and also old tobacco, praying at the same time for instruction relative to the event of the campaign.

Now if they were to meet with a considerable loss, the met would pop & throw little pieces westward toward the army; but if they were to be successful in killing the enemy the meat would fly toward the east. It is that as many particles flew off from the sacrifice as there were persons to be killed.
The priest then assembled a scaffold together with his seven counsellors, - spread a deer skin, set his U lu sa ta on it, and then prayed for instruction by means of that relative to the events of the war. He then examined the appearance of the stone. If bood? appeared in the right side of it some of his men were to be killed, but if in the left side, some of the enemy; and if nothing appeared, the expedition was to be ineffectual.
 In marching no one must break or ?nt a bush, but if one did this accidentally he must not drop it, but carry it till they camped at night.