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on unclear, all might gaze around as usual. The skins were deposited on the table. The people were seated by the priest in a row fronting the water. Meanwhile, the right hand man produced a great number of sticks, about six inches long. At the distance of a stick's length, carefully measured from the water's edge, which he first touched with one end of each stick, he stuck them one by one in the sand, leaving short intervals between each, till the entire collection stretched out to a line parallel with that of the multitude as it sat along the bank in silence. All were directed to keep strict watch upon whatever came opposite to them out of the water and upon all its actions. If bugs, if worms on certain other reptiles crawled up from near the water's edge and fought, the person opposite was to die or be grievously distrust?. If nothing appeared, all would go well. This ceremony over, at the direction of the priest, all plunged into the water with their clothes on. All dipped entirely seven times, with their head, towards the east; not event excepting infants, who were plunged in by their mothers. Meanwhile, the priest upon the bank had unrolled the skins and displayed the Ooh, Ling, Sah, Tah