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    This dance continues the greater part of the day, with intervals for partaking of refreshments, consisting principally of bread made by enveloping dough of Indian corn and beans of the new crop, in long green blades of corn, and when thus arranged, boiling it.
   The remainder of the day passes in exercises similar to the foregoing; & the night in performing the common dance.
   Excessive drunkenness, and its consequences, generally prevailed; especially towards the close. The old men, on these, and similar occasions, seemed as if seriously absorbed in the fulfillment of a solemn duty; but the greater part of the more youthful, only assembled for a frolick, and that not often of the purest character.,

    It will be observed that in the preceding account, both the Green Corn Festivals seem blended; but of the second, the Tung, han, Kaw, hovngh - ni, the mature or Ripe, Green Corn Feast, - it is stated by numbers of the natives that from the outset of their acquaintance with fire-arms, the Cherokee made use of them in its celebrating and as they fired in festive joy, the women and children would stop their ears and run.
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