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All the household then repaired to a river or creek.They plunged entirely seven times, as at the Great Feast, and then laid aside their clothes, & put on clean and dry ones in their stead. They devoted the day to entire abstinence.
At night, the meat being cooked, and the mush, _____ made of fine meal, _____ the only kind of bread which was permitted to be eaten with that meat, _____ being ready, _____ all partook together. If they could not consume all the meat themselves, they might send it to a neighbor, if there was one near; _____ orgive it to any creature, or burn it' _____ but none of it must, on any account, see the next morning.
Persons labouring under any kind of uncleanness, might partake of this feast, by having a portion given to them alone.
The next Festival in order we find especially permitted in towns, as we proceed to show in describing the modifications of the second of the series, Sah, look, stu-knee, keeh steh steeh, The preliminary, a new Green Corn Feast; _____and of the third, _____ Tung, nah, kaw, hoongh - Ni; Mature, or Ripe Green Corn Feast.
In the account given of the National Councils, mention will be found of the manner in which intelligence of their proceedings was transmitted at the close of each session to the various towns throughout the nation. It appears that each town
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