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a request that he would bring down rain. The man thus selected was to remain with the conjurer through the fast. The conjurer spread the deer skin on the ground, with the flesh side up. Sprinkling tobacco, dust on the fire and praying, he sacrificed the meat, He then took a string of beads long enough to reach round a person's neck, and with seven swan's feather attached; and he carried it to a creek. Placing a stone, _ the upper side of which was smooth, _ in the water's edge, so as to bring the smooth side even with the water's surface, _ he laid upon it the beads and swan's feathers. He then prayed to the Greater, meaning the moon, termed by him husband of the Sun. He next again prayed to the Greater, or moon; and implied? that he, the Greater, or moon, would take these beads which were on the stone, and put them around the neck of the Sun, so as to darken her face, that clouds might come from the mountains. He then shook a terrapin shell partly filled with pebbles. He afterwards prayed to the little men? at the mouth, _ meaning the little thunders, -_ to send clouds and rain; proceeding still more earnestly to supplicate that they would send it to