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round the fire & every time they face the E they throw some of the flowers into the fire. They then go & stand to the W The warriors then repeat the dance ceremony.

      A cane is stuck up at the cabin of the Micco with two white feathers in the end of it. One of the Fish tribe (Thlot,lorel,gee) takes it just as the sun goes down & goes off towards the river; all word scratched out following him. When he gets half way to the river, he gives the death whoop; this whoop he repeats four times between the square & the water's edge. Here they all place themselves as thick as they can stand near the edge of the water. He picks up the cane at the water's edge, and they all put a grain of the old man's tobacco on their head & in each ear. Then at a signal given 4 different times, they throw some into the river & every man at a like signal, plunges into the river & picks up four stones from the bottom. With these they cross themselves on their breasts 4 times, each time throwing a stone into the river, and giving the death whoop. They then wash themselves, take up the cane & feathers, return & stick it up in the square; and visit through the town. At night, the dance O, bun, gass Hary's (mad dance) and this finishes the ceremony.
      This happy institution, the Booshsketuh, restores man to himself, to his family, and to his nation. It is a general amnesty, which not only absolves the Indians from all crimes, murder only excepted, but seems to bury guilt itself into oblivion
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