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25 and the honour of leading the dance in the buffalo feast of right belongs to you." She thereupon received from her hands the gleaming trophy ! amidst the shouts of the multitudes, and it was carefully placed in the medicine-lodge amongst the valued archives of the nation. The buffalo-dance, or the BEL-LACK-NAH-PICK, ended on the fourth day at noon; and the moral suggested by the strange and revolting ceremonies was, that in the midst of them the Evil Spirit made his entrée underscored for the purpose of doing mischief, and that having been defeated in all his designs by the magic power of the medicine-pipe, he had been driven out of the village in disgrace by the very portion of the community that he came to impose upon. The cutting scene, or POHK-HONG, as it is called, now commenced inside the lodge in the following manner. The young men, who had now reached the middle of the fourth day either strike-out? without either eating, drinking, or sleeping, were, as a consequence, excessively weakened and exhausted, were seen all reclining around the sides of the lodge, preparing themselves to submit to the torture. The two men who were to inflict the wounds were stationed near the middle of the lodge; one had a knife like a meat knife, sharp at both edges, and hacked so as