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festivals, the rites of these last are unclear in the ones about to be detailed by a mixture with yet wilder imaginings than are found either in the fast for the fever or the small pox. To proceed, then, with these ceremonies: _ When the ground becomes so dry and parched as to make the people think the corn needed rain, they would assemble at the Town Council House, and appoint a person to prepare a fast or, as others say, they would desire the town conjurer's right hand man to take charge of the arrangements. The preliminaries consisted in sending out seven hunters to hunt during seven days; and enquiring, as upon the ah, tauh, hung, nah, upon seven men, and seven women, one from each clan, a fast of seven days, prior to the general a unclear of the people. On the eve of this term's ending, the hunters having returned and the people having re-assembled, the ceremonies were considered as begun: A man was then selected to take the deer skins brought in by the hunters, and a piece of the deer's meat for sacrifice, _ to the presiding conjurer, with a