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431 and 12 penciled at top of page sticks in their hands. The man appointed to lead the whoop, raised a war whoop, or one nearly resembling it, to which all the players answered, wah. The musician then commenced, [[Wa hi u, wa hi u, etc] The players then commenced dancing, responding to the musician, hah, hah, at every repetition of the word, wa hi u. The players also, while dancing round the fire, made motions with their ball sticks, as if actually engaged in play. The musician had a goard which he rattled occasionally during the dance. After dancing four times round the fire, the whooper, gave a whoop, & ran off a few steps. The players responded as at the first, and stepping towards the East, to a place prepared, and locking their ball sticks together, hung them up, sat down about half an hour. Then the same manoevers were gone through again. And thus four times. After which all repaired to a stream, and dipped all over seven times. + The next morning, at day break, the conjurer took them to the creek, going behind with his deer skin and beads, conjuring for them. On arriving at the stream, they again dipped seven times. Then during the day, they were generally in a company about the Town house, watching each other, that no one violated the rules of the play. These were as follows, vir. 1. No one of the players must go near