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534 25 When an enemy approached a town suddenly, the war priest, with a loud voice, spoke, & called the warriors to arms. But when the people of the Town were Liernd? so scattered as not to be able to hear his voice, he raised the war whoop, which was immediately caught by all the warriors who heard it, and reached in every part of the town. Each warrior on raising the war whoop, started for the place of rendervous, i.e the house of the war priest, who, on Their arrival immediately sounded the war trumpet (of the Thigh bone of a crane) and pitched battle. But suppose another nation sent a challenge, or made a declaration of war, The news of this ? to the captain of the host, or the so consulted his seven counsellors & principal war priest, returned answer that he would must? the nation thus challenging them, and immediately dispatched his warriors to the ? war priest: and he again his, and thus runners were were on the wing night & day till each war priest, on recieving the message, & starting his runner to the town, ? called his men by a loud talk, or by the war whoop, & immediately set forward on. On arriving