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35 Mourning. On the death of a person the Cherokees mourned four days + the females in the house immediately set up a mort dale fue? wailing, repeating the relative name of the deceased adding a note of lamentation, as if a son, tge tsé, thi, Ari Ari Ari hi te? as long as they can hold their breath, and then after a moment of pause go over the same again, and again, Dancing? they found days none more be angry, nor speak in a light or trifling manner, nor eat any thing but the lightest kind of food as bread, or thin drink or aromary?. The women tore their bands from their hair, let it hang loose, and paid no particular attention to their unclear. Every thing in the house became unclean- all the people, all clothing, all provision, all furniture as goands? pails, pots, & all became unclean, What belonged to the deceased was either buried with him, or burnt, so also the provision as corn? potatoes or was destroyed furniture & all these worn away or