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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 This being done the priest, having cut off the end of the tongue of the Buck which had been brought in whole, now put it onto the fire. This, while burning, was viewed with the strictest attention, as everything respecting its burning was ominous of life or death. __________

The sacrifice being ended the whole buck was taken, and cut to pieces and cooked, and kept by itself, and so distributed at the time of eating, that each person should taste of it, with a little mush, made of fine meal.   This Buck must be entirely eaten that night and none of it supposed to see the next morning.  Other meat cooked for the feast might be

kept as usual; & it must be eaten with no other[bu..?]] This night, none but infants could be allowed to sleep at all, and the women devoted most of the time to dancing the friendship dance.

The priest, if not at the creek, at the council house after the sacrifice distributed a certain root among the people, which they chewed, and rubbed themselves and children with
the juice. A part of this root however they preserved to be used in a similar manner at the appearance of every intervening new moon between that and the first of autumn.