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604? [or [654?]] 45 On the morning of the fourth day, the prayer and part of the first day were repeated, and the drink given out as at first to the seven men. The fifth and sixth days were spent as the second and third only on the morning of the sixth, the seven counsellors directed all who had guns to hunt. The first buck they killed, the person who shot it, stepped forward, cut off the end of his tongue, wrapped it in the leaves of the year before, & put it away for sacrifice. The meat that was killed was taken at night to the town house. On the morning of the seventh day, the priest prayed, gave out the drink & as on the first & fourth, and all fasted till near sunset. The meat taken on the sixth day having been cooked and a supportive hand by the women, the rituals was brought forward, put on a long table, & the people seated by it. The priest then went to the fire, and standing with his face toward the setting sun, put the deers tongue on the fire & then sprinkled some old tobacco & prayed to the sun. His right hand man, his speaker and seven counsellors, stood with