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Two of the firemakers then produced two pieces of dry basswood[?], and put dry golden rod between them. Two others took the wood and goldenrod, and passed them to another two, keeping them in motion, till the weed, and then the wood, took fire; and with the brands[?] the altar fire was lighted. The form of divination subjsituted for the more anchient one,__which has been already described by us in narrating that part of the great national propitiation festival immediately succeeding the sacrifice of the deer's tongue,_ __was as follows: The hunter, on their return, had given the [u] Oole, Stool, eeh [/u], the skin of a buck, of a doe and of a fawn. These he spread west of the fire, with the heads towards the fire and the east; having the flesh side up. He then took a little bunch of weeds, or grass, and dipped it in fresh blood, either of a deer or fowls, and drew a streak of blood on the skins from the tail to the head. On this streak of blood in the middle of the buckskin he set his [u] Ooh, lung, sah, [du] tah [/du][/u], and also seven strands of beads, one representing each clan. The [u] Ooh, lung, sah, [du] tah [/du][/u],__ or Divining Chrystal, was now examined.__

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