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    A man previously chosen for the purpose, appeared with a box. He danced slowly around, singing as he went. Each person present threw a piece of tobacco into his box and he disappeared.
    The men and two women, alternatively, then moved along abreast. The two forward men, in their right hands, bore something like a hoop with two sticks through it, crossing each other at right angles in the centre. On the ends of the stick, white feathers were fastened. Two men in the middle, and two in the rear, also carried hoops and sticks, while all the rest held in their right hands green boughs of white pine.
    On the three first nights, at midnight, the dance ended here, and the green boughs were carefully deposited among the consecrated things, till its repetition. The people then were at liberty to withdraw to their homes, or wherever they chose, till morning.
    On the fourth night, after dark, victuals having been prepared and brought to the place, all partook together in a joyful feast. At midnight, being the point where the dance broke off on the three nights' preceding, the man with the box re-appeared, carrying it round the circle, and singing.
          Ti hu ni tu tu
           A ni hu le ya,

four times, while each person took from the box