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met at the National Heptagon. They appointed certain Honorable Women to perform what is termed the Friendship Dance. The dance being ended, the prime counsellors reckoned the nights from the last new moon. They who consulted the Divining Chrystal, a "Word of Waji", to determine when the First Spring New Moon would appear. They then dispatched their messenger through the nation to announce it. They also directed the hunters in the metropolitan town to provide the meat which would be required for the occasion. They were to kill deer, turkeys, and any other creatures permitted for food and to preserve and bring forward the provision at the appointed day. One buck they must dress whole; that is, the skin and entrails and feet might be removed from the body, but neither the head nor liver nor light, nor heart. The skin they must dress white; together with a doe and fawn skin. In addition to there arrangements, the seven prime counsellors selected seven men to order the feast, and seven women to oversee and do the cooking. On the evening when the New Moon was the appear, all the population assembled from every quarter. The delegated hunters brought in their meat and placed it in the store house at the west side of the National Heptagon. Having also given notice to the presiding