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331 penciled at top of page - also 34 prepared for offering the sacrifice. Having coals placed one side of the pot, on the altar, he stood west of the fire, with his face towards it, and of course towards the east, his right hand man stood by his side, and his seven counsellors in the semicircle behind them. The priest then held up the deer's tongue between the thumb and finger of his right hand, and prayed. He then put the deer's tongue on the coals, and sprinkled on old tobacco. His right hand man and seven counsellors united with him in watching the meat. As many times as the meat popped, so many deaths would occur during the year. In case there was to be much sickness among the people, the smoke of the sacrifice would form a bluish cloud over the fire, and not rise directly; otherwise, it would ascend immediately toward heaven. The priest also consulted his U lu sa ta, or Divining stone. The hunters, as they came in from hunting gave him the skin of a buck, of a doe and of a fawn. These he spread west of the fire with the heads towards it, and of course towards the east, having the flesh side up. He then took a little bunch of weeds, and dipped it in fresh blood, either of a deer, or of fowls, and drew a streak of blood on the skins from the head to the tail. On this streak of blood on the buck skin, he set his U lu sa ta, in the middle of the skin. He also placed on the same skin seven strands of beads one for each clan. Now when they came to examine the Divining stone, if it was to be sickly, it would assume a bluish, smoky appearance, but if not it would exhibit a bright, dazzling appearance, without smoke. The priest also enquired by the beads. This, however, is probably of modern origin. For one clan, he took the strand of beads from the busk skin, representing that clan, and held it in his right hand