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commenced. At the expiration of their seven days' fast, food was taken thither to them. As soon as the rain began to fall, the whole town united in an all night solemn dance of thanksgiving, in honor of the being, or beings, who had been suppressed to send the rain; whether the moon, the little men at the month,_ or, the little thunder;_ the greater man at the west, or. the great thunder; _ or the Woman in the East, to whom, (as unclear an old man now among the Cherokee,) no appeal for rain was ever known to fail.

It is not east to trace the signification of this Woman of the East, who is often directly or indirectly alluded to with great deference, among the Cherokee tradition. May she not be the first woman, _ the one destroyed by her sons, _ whose story is told in another part of our work? _ and may not the following fancy, _ and the forms connected with it, _ related to the same woman? Contain Cherokee conjurers suppose that the corn once died; and that it bade? that spirit or seed, whenever in trouble, to look up to its mother above. When