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326 penciled at top of page - also 30 to the priest, and told him the pot was ready. The priest, and his right hand man, then went to the store house, and the right hand man took the basket of saved articles for purification, and walked a few steps, followed by the priest. The priest then told him to stop. He did so, and the priest repeated, in a low voice a certain prayer. The right hand man then proceeded, followed by the priest till they entered the council house, when the priest again ordered a halt, and again prayed as before. They then proceeded to the north side of the altar, - walked round the fire once, and stopped. The priest then sprinkled some powder of old tobacco on the fire, and took the wing of a heron, perfectly white, and waved it over the pot, so as to blow the steam in every direction; and again prayed. Then both walked round the fire again, and again the priest sprinkled on old tobacco, waved the white wing over the pot, and again prayed as before. Thus also they proceeded four times. The priest then ordered his right hand man to put the basket with its contents into the pot. The right hand man, holding the basket with both hands, moved it round four times over the pot, and then set it slowly in the water. After this, they both walked round the fire once, - the priest waved the steam with the wing, as before, and then both retired to their sacred seats. These were now covered with buck skin dressed? white, having the same kind of skins spread before them for the priests to rest their feet on. Seven deer skins were also suspended over their heads. The seven men who had kindled the fire now renewed it round the pot. On this morning also all the women in this chief