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The seven counsellors of the priest selected a man to sing the zowa?, when the one previously appointed was sick or dead. The priest who officiated at the medicine front was Corn Tostle? sanohi i e one who renews heart and body, or cleanses forever moral and bodily defilements. Nutsawi P. The priest who officiated at the foregoing fearts? was also called Uli stu li, (one who has his head covered). He taught the people all moral duties and exhorted them to avoid all evil conduct such as quarrelling, lying, stealing, unclear, and travelled from one tavern to another. It is said that this priest held the foregoing feast in seven different places (probably in modern tiems) and that every night and morning he preached to the children + young people. On leaving, at each place, seven deer skins were given him. Nutrawi? In case any fatal disease made its appearance in the country, a priest of the above order was called upon to have the yowa? sung, and the above feast celebrated. This priest, (as well as others, elevated to holy offices in infancy or childhood,), sometimes remind his n la sa ta?in his bosom, It was put in something so as to be concealed, and fastened to a string, which was put over his neck, so that none hung on his breast. It was said of the above priest at the A to hui nu, te ko ttuhi si ha the is One priest, of the various orders, might have seven scholars or disciples, at the same time under his care, but not more. It stated seasons (when?) when his disciples went to him, for instruction. He took them into some retirement and spent twenty four hours with them, without food or sleep, and employed the time in teaching them the duties of their respective offices. When the old man perceived his own death? approaching, he called his disciples together, and recapitulated the instruction he knew from time to time, given them. He then called one, whom he selected to fill his sieve?, and willed to him, as a legacy, his celosata?, and authorized him to cut? in his stead? when he was gone. In general the old man kept the stone till his death and? then the youth to whom it had been bequeathed took it, but sometimes the old man gave it with his own hands to his favorite disciple. But in case an old priest had no disciples when he found he must soon die, looked for a tree in the unclear of which there was a hole, made by a woodpecker, and put his re lo sa ta? in the hole & stopped it up. Or he might put it in the nook? of a rock, or in a cave, where no one could find it, supposing that it would kill any one, not duly authorized, to touch it, & that if left in the house would cause the death of all the family. Sometimes the stone was buried on the breast of the priest. Nustrawe'?