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81 P. 16. 83 was the game. A unclear had previously been made round the ball ground to notify spectators how fast they might approach ( tn? other sheet). When victory was declared, on either side, the spectators with shouts of applause, & in almost every way possible extolled the victors | On these occasions the spectators were clothed in their richest & gayest attire.

On their return home, the players observed nearly the same order, as when they came?, all keeping together.
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With regard to the all night dances, as kept up among the loose Cherokees at the present^day, they are polluted & polluting. They evidently are not of Indian origin, because although the Indians performed the same dances, yet wives, anciently followed their own husband, & single females their own brothers, or near relatives, with whom it could be dea? to have unlawful intercourse. Husbands were not separated from their wives as at the present day. The Cherokees were once, evidently, as modest and reserved in their dances as the Creeks, but they have been corrupted by the infidel sentiments, and shameful practices of abandoned white men. Therefore, as a full description of the present all night dances, would do nothing towards illustrating the Indian character, an attempt to give that description would be useless. The ancient Cherokees like the Creeks, had seven sides to their council houses, one for each clan or family, and as the individuals of each clan could not intermarry on pain of death, they were as own brothers & sisters, both when seated & when engaged in dancing together.
The ancient dances of the Indians were evidently designed for religious purposes, to accompany, either their prayers & sacrifices, or their thanksgivings. next two sentences crossed out: A brief description of them all, would fill a Volume. I will therefore at present simply give a brief description of one, which is generally termed the  U ku dance, but - crossed out which I will call the septenial feast, as occurring the latter part of summer or the commencement of autumn, every seventh year, or about once in seven years. This was peculiarly a feast of rejoicing. The seven counsellors of the U ku, on consulting him, determined the time of this feast, and notified the people, by sending messengers through the nation.