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At any time during the season, when the ground became dry and parched, or when the people began to think the corn needed rain, the town assembled at the town house, and the priest's two right hand men (some say the people of the town) appointed seven men to hunt, seven others, and also seven women to fast seven days etc. as before the feast of First fruits. At the expiration of these days, when the hunters had returned, the people again assembled, and a man was selected to take the deer skins the hunters had brought, and a piece of the meat for sacrifice to the conjurer, and request him to make rain. This man was to continue with the conjurer during the process The conjurer took a deer skin, and spread it on the ground with the flesh side up. He then sacrificed the meat, sprinkling tobacco dust on the fire, praying etc. He then took a string of beads of sufficient length to reach round a person's neck, with seven swan's feathers fastened to it, and carried them to a creek. Then, taking a stone, having the upper side smooth, - placing it in the edge of the water, so that the upper side of the stone was even with the surface of the water, placed the beads and swan's feathers upon it. He then prayed to God (probably the moon the husband of the sun) and then prayed to the sun.