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115 117 P. 32 children a long time without providing for their wants, the women punish him as above. Yet in this case if the man does not return so as to be punished before the new fires is made at the annual feast (of expiation) he cannot be punished, being supposed to be cleansed at least from the guilt of this offence. Uncleannesses Ceremonial defilement was contracted by being in a house where a person died, - by touching a dead body, or the bone or grave of a dead person, or by touching a person who was unclean. In all these cases the uncleanness continued four days. The subject of it took emetics, plunged entirely in water seven times, unclear on a change of dress, and then continued in a state of separation four days.

 It was also contracted by child birth. In this case the uncleanness the mother continued seven days. tho by the monthly course of females. During the seven days which this continued, the subject of it must touch nothing but her own food, bed, and wearing apparel. At the end of seven days she washed entirely, put on a change3 of apparel, and returned to the family circle. But if the cause of the uncleanness continued longer, the uncleanness itself was prolonged.
  For a man to sleep with a woman in her uncleanness, was considered among the most filthy crimes. He was obliged to take an emetic, and then dip himself seven times in a river, and then continue alone in his uncleanness till night. Unless he did this he was pronounced unfit to hunt or engage in war. Husbands and wives also contracted defilement by cohabiting together, and must bathe, or plunge themselves seven times in a stream.
  Tho during the night while asleep persons were supposed to contract a certain degree of uncleanness, on which unclear some considered it necessary to plunge seven times every morning (see a former sheet). 

Vertical in left margin Sounds of letters in Cherokee words. a as in father or short as in rival e as a in hate i as i in figure o as aw in law, u as oo in fool v as u in lust or v u nasal.