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149 If the season was to be sickly, it would appear smoky and bluish. If healthy, it would shine dazzlingly, without smoke. Next, the beads were consulted. In his right hand, the priest took up by turns the strings of beads representing the respective clans, and inferred the omens of health, or the reverse, from the movements of the beads as he held them.

In reference to the last of the series, the Sixth, called [u] Eelah, wahtah, lay [du] kee [/du][/u], __the Festival of the Exulting, or Bounding, Bush,__we only find that the man who formerly appeared at the beginning and on the fourth midnight, with a box, was [?] more recently; but the other forms were retained. Of this festival it has also been remarked that though, for many years, it has been performed at various seasons, as best suited the people's convenience and inclination, it is known to have been always observed in earlier times annually on the later part of the first autumnal new moon.

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