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of the sixth day stored in the treasure house a few steps west of the National Heptagon. About the same time, the produce of the hunt was also deposited there. The people, too, now gathered from all parts of the nation, about the entrance of the National Heptagon. During the fore part of the night, the women danced, while four musicians, each in his turn, sang for them. After this, all retired to sleep; ___ and on the morning of the seventh day, the Fifth Great Festival, the Ah, tawh, hung, nah, ___ the propitiation, or Cementation, Festival, ___ began.

    At day break, the seven men whose duty it was to provide the new fire, made it as described in the preceding account of the intermediate ceremony between the First and Second Festival. This fire was kindled and kept burning with seven different kinds of wood, ___ viz: black jack, locust, post oak, sycamore, redbud, plum and red oak. None of this wood was permitted to be taken from the ground' but it must be broken from the lower dry limbs of each respective tree and from the eastern side of each.
    As the new fire makers commenced, so did the seven appointed to cleanse the National Heptagon and to exercise the houses of the metropolitan town. ___ These last had a prescribed costume. The head was girt with a scarf in Indian