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ed in a house built at the west side of the council house for the purpose of depositing meat, first fruits, etc at the national feasts, and also for storing away provision brought for the priests ad old men who lived at the council house. The seven men and women, appointed, had fasted during their time together with the priest & his right hand man. On the evening of the sixth day when the hunters returned, all appeared in one assembly at the council house, and spent the night in dancing. In the morning early, the priest directed all to repair to the river where, after uttering a short prayer on the bank, he ordered them all to wash. this they did by wading in, and then plunging entirely seven times, first toward the east. Then west etc. The men went in - a little up stream, and the women and children below. Some went in with old garments, and while in the water let them loose to swim away, as they do