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324 penciled at top of page - also 28 his right hand man on the return of the hunters. But no part of the buck must be eaten till the tongue had been offered for sacrifice. Those appointed to provide the articles for purification went out in search of them. These articles were as follows vis, cedar, white pine, hemlock, missel tow, evergreen briar, Heart leaf, and ginsang root. Though the top of this last dies in winter, yet as the root does not, they place it among the above greens. It is probable that the above articles could not always be had, and therefore some say that the following were used vis. Bark from mountain birch trees, and the sprigs of another kind of mountain birch which grows only in shrubs, - willow roots, such as grew in the banks of streams, so as to be exposed to the water, and which had thus been long washed by the stream, - dogwood roots which grew in the same manner, and had been similarly washed by the stream, - missel tow, - spr?? pine, and the bark of a ta si ki or smelling wood. The articles to be used on the occasion were put into a cane basket, and tied, or made fast in it, and brought to the council house, on the evening of the sixth day, and deposited in the store house, a few steps west of the council house, where the hunters also deposited their meat about the same time. On the same evening the people also from all parts of the nation assembled about the council house. During the forepart of the night the women danced, while four musicians, each in his turn sang for them. After this all retired to sleep. Early the next morning, the seven men, whose busi-