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Sixth Sheet 136 unclear 138 Formerly, the Cherokees observed an annual feast, which they called E hi w o ta te gi. This has latterly been observed at different seasons of the year, though it was anciently kept it is said at a stated season sometime during the first moon of autumn. In this dance , the men and women unite, two men abreast followed by two women, then two men &c, till all are arranged. The two forward men carry in their right hands something like a hoop, with two sticks put through it, crossing each other at right angles in the center. On the ends of these sticks are fastened white feathers. Two men in the middle, and two in the rear carry the unknown, while all the others men and women hold in their right hands green, white pine boughs, or branches. On the three first nights they dance till about midnight, and at the close of the dance each night they put away their boughs till the next morning, and retire to their homes as they choose.

  But on the fourth night a little after dark, victuals having been prepared, is brought to the town house, or place of the dance, and all partake together in a joyful feast and then commence the same dance as on the three preceding nights, and continue it till nearly or quite day. 
  On the three first nights, previous to dancing, a certain man appointed for the purpose, holds a  box, and commences singing, when each person present throws a piece of tobacco into the box. On the fourth night, near the close of the dance, this man carries the box round the inside, singing in hu ni tu tu, a ne hu le ya. This he sings four times, and each person takes out of the box a piece of tobacco, and then takes some of the pine leaves from the bough, and mashing them in the hand puts them with the tobacco. This being done, all standing in a circle round the fire, each one, singly, walks toward, the fire, reaching forth his or her hand, as if to throw the tobacco into the fire, singing u, u, u (as long as) and then suddenly starts back as if reluctant to part with the tobacco, but on approaching the fire the third time throws the tobacco and pine leaves together into the fire, and retires.  And thus the feast closes.
  Cherokees are not addicted to covetousness. They are trained up to hospitality, strangers and visitors must share the best they have; and those of their own people who are poor and have no home, must find a home in every house where they may chance to be, having a claim not merely on their pity, but the position of those unable to relieve them, and use imperative made with as much kindness as those credited when calling for his just due.