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319 penciled at top of page - also number 23 Such, however, as, according to the oracle, were to die before the first spring new moon, fasted all this day. At evening each one of them gave to the priest a piece of new cloth, or a deer skin, and he took them again to the river. He then spread the cloth one of them had given him, - set the divining stone upon it, and prayed for instruction relative to this man's life. The man then holding the palm of his right hand toward the stone, looked into it. Now if his life was good, he saw himself erect, in his natural colour; but if not, his form, either appeared, and immediately vanished, or appeared in the reclining posture, or with a blue countenance. In this case, his cause was referred to the next new moon, in four weeks, and if the omens were then had, he was soon to die. But if, on this second trial, any one appeared erect and natural, he was ordered to go to the river, and plunge seven times, with his head toward the east. On this night also none but infants might sleep. The women spent most of the night in a solemn, religious dance; and the next morning all returned to their home. Three killer? (The more modern method of celebrating the above feast in individual towns, I have already forwarded at large.) Leipap 27 penciled at bottom of page