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distribution of the buck dressed whole. This night only infants were allowed to sleep. The women passed most of it in the Friendship dance. On the following morning the Festival was considered at an end, and all had liberty to withdraw. In the course of this Festival, a ceremony which the Indians of the present day call scratching, was administered freely. It consists of long gashes cut up and down the limbs with flints or fish bones. The medicinal root distributed at the river bank was also liberally chewed; and the juice rubbed by the people upon themselves and their children. Some of the root, however, was retained for similar uses at every intervening New Moon, until that of Autumn. The three skins paced near the altar, together with the skins of all other animals killed expressly for the present festival, belonged to the priest, who was also entitled to a sufficient supply of each article in the stick of provisions contributed by the hunters who had chanced to come in and by the people in general. But any surplus might return to the respective bestowers. Soon