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respective clan being grouped distinctly), who passed it on to another, till it had gone the rounds.-The Yahwah hymns and the exorcisms by the seven cleanser, followed, in every particular as on the evening before; and all the people fasted till sun set; at the approach of which, the same ceremonies ceremonies of divination were practiced, with the buck, doe and faun skin, which are enumerated in our description of the manner of employing them in the modified form of the Ah tawh hung, nah, with the addition that every individual went up to the Oolee, stool, eeh? or presiding priest, one by one, with a white bead each; and, wetting it with spittle, placed it on a skin; the men on the buckskin, the women on the doeskin, the children on that of the faun. The Oolee, stool, eeh? retained these that he might, in the event of any one being taken sick, determine the result by means of the bead representing the sufferer. It was now proclaimed that the women had prepared the meat brought in by the hunters; and the people were directed to make ready the tables set out in the sacred square to receive it, but not to taste until duly notified that the evening sacrifice was over, and what was