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P.hB 140 the priest then selected several men to clear the way to the stream prepare seats for the people, and a table for himself to spread his deer skin on. During the time this was going on, the priest retired alone to a mountain to sing and pray. On his return, as soon as he could determine that it was a little past noon, (which he did by means of a perpendicular stake) he again collected the people into the house, placing them, standing in rows, with their faces toward the east. He then prayed with them, but in so low a tone as not to be word scratched out understood. Two deer skins, one of a buck, and the other of a doe, were then spread on the table, with the flesh side up. The priest then took a piece of new cloth, such as had been given for the occasion, and