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and setting his Ooh, lung, sah tah, or Divining Chrystal, -- in it, -- he prayed and consulted it as the oracle of life or death to every individual present; -- in the manner mentioned in our account of the various Divining Chrystals. -- This solemnity over, the priest put away the "Light" or "Word of wasi", and all the people went out; -- the women to cooking, -- the men to gathering wood and pine, so as to have every thing in readiness by the hour of twelve. One of the right hand men got the several kinds of bark employed at the first new moon of spring for making fire on the altar of the house of sacrifice, -- while the other remained to see that the women and children did not break their fast before the proper time. The priest then selected several men to clear the way to a neighboring stream and to prepare seats for the people and stands for him to spread his deer skins on, -- one at the river bank and one at the convocation house. While this was proceeding, he went up on a mountain, to sing and pray by himself. He returned so as to be in readiness for meeting the people at noon, the precise moment of which he ascertained by fixing a stake perpendicularly in the ground and watching the