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335 penciled at top of page E la wo ta te gi or Dancing, or Bounceing Bush Feast. The sixth great feast was Bounceing Bush Feast. This was evidently once an annual feast observed the latter part of the first autumnal new moon, though for many years it has been made an occasional feast, celebrated at various seasons of the year, to suit the convenience and inclinations of the people. In this dance the men and women united, - two men abreast followed by two women, then two men until all were arranged. The two forward men carried in their right hands, a hoop, with two sticks put through it crossing each other at right angles in the centre. On the ends of these sticks were fastened white feathers. Two men in the middle, and two in the rear carried the same. All the others, men and women, held in their right hands green, white pine boughs. The three first nights they danced till midnight, and at the close of the dance, each night, they put away their boughs till the next morning, and retired to their houses as they chose. But on the fourth night victuals being brought to the place all partook together in a joyful feast, and then continued the dance all night. (But, as I have already, I believe, given some a account of this east, and am not now able to bring it forward from the shades of antiquity, and display it in a proper light, I will say no more at present. It was evidently, in its origin, the feast of tabernacles, and I still hope to learn more concerning it.)