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A short time before sunset all were assembled at the council house. The fire had been kept burning on the hearth (or rather, altar of earth, raised in the center of the house)

with the seven kinds of wood, and the three skins before mentioned being still in their places, the priest, - his right had man & counsellors took their positions by the fire. The priest then took the flowers of old tobacco from the buck skins, where they had been deposited in the morning, and put them on the fire. They emitted a singular smell sentence crossed out