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by it. The seven counsellors carefully counted the nights from the preceding moon, the waning of which they watched. But, if cloudy weather kept the old moon out of view, all doubts were settled by resorting to the Ooh, lung, sah, tah, or Divining Chrystal. Having ascertained the time when the Great Moon would appear, seven nights before its arrival the seven prime counsellors of the sent out the metropolitan hunters, as on other similar occasions heretofore described, to hunt during six days; and also, as on other occasions, seven men to prepare seats and tables and order the feast and seven honourable women to make the provisions ready and to cook them. On the day when the great moon was to appear, the meat taken in the hunt was brought in barbacued and deposited in the store house west of the National Heptagon; the end of the first buck's tongue begin previously cut out and wrapped in old leaves and given to the priest; who also received seven deerskins. On the same night, the entire nation met. Each family brought seven or more, ears of hard corn, beans, dried pumpkins, — indeed, a sample of every sort of produce they had raised. These articles where delivered to the priest for his own use; or rather, as it was was more delicately expressed, for that of his hospitalities. Each family deposited in the treasure house some of all the fruits of their respective fields,