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the water. Then turning to the west, plunged again. Then to the east, &c. seven times. Some went in with old garments, & while in the water, let them loose, to swim or ?ery, with the impurities of the last year, and put on new, clean clothes, on coming to the bank. Others chang their clothes so that on returning to the council house all were in clean apparel.

 On returning to the council house, the priest offered sacrifice. Standing by the fire, with his right hand man at his side, & his seven wumllrs behind him, all facing the east. The priest prayed that God would cleanse them from all the impurities of the past year healthy tha adius. He then put the meat (deer tongue) on the coals, and also the seven kernels of new corn, one for each class? and then sprinkled on the powder of old tobacco. Now this corn and meat would   ?? as many times as there were to de deaths among the people during the year.  The priest then placed his u ta sa ta (Divining stones) o the seven deer skins folded (or on something^she f them p pore;  placed in the window of the house. where the sun would shine on it. This was a little after sun rise. 
The appearance of the Divining stone (u la sa ta) now in finned the testamony of the sacrifice; and just as many  ons appeared lying dead as were in his            preparing of the sacrifice. The priest then gave to the seven councellors (one of each clan) a kind of water of purification. This was a tea made by boiling a weed called slo lo ma. The counsellors then distributed this drink, each giving to those of his own clan. This tea they drank s  also washed with it their