MICHELSON.] THE SINGING AROUND RITE. 593 
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“Those are the songs. This is the last song. Whenever those of 
you who belong to the society dies any place, you are to use it. When 
you begin to carry each other and go lay each other down in rest, 
you must sing. I shall not fail to know if anyone uses the song while 
fasting. I shall let him know whatever he wishes,”’ he was told by his 
grandfather. ‘And as many men as you may have selected shall 
all sing; they must sing loudly, and the women must sing. As long 
as you sing you must all dance. You must always make rattles to 
dance with. But you will hang feathers on them. You must always 
say to as many as you may have selected, my grandchild, ‘sometimes 
disease goes about among you. It goes around among you all, 
changing its form. It takes away very many people.’ That is why 
I give you this drum, because you have made your body suffer the 
pangs of hunger. For that is how many of us are empowered to do, 
namely, confer blessings on you whenever you fast. That is why 
we can bless each one of you. When anyone does exactly that, we 
bless him in that manner,” he was told.‘ There is no evil in the way 
it is permitted us to bless one,” he was told. “‘ Now the way I bless 
you this day is extremely good. Only you men are to have rattles, 
and the women likewise are not to make them resound; they shall 
merely hum. You will tell them. You must depend upon this if 
you are troubled badly with disease. After you have completed 
your plans in accordance with the way I bless you, you must at once 
cook something if you think, ‘perhaps my fellow-people are troubled 
with disease.’ You must cook something by boiling simply, so that 
you may gather. For I have already instructed you. And you must 
go around, entering as many wigwams as there are. You will go 
about making (the drum) resound. You will sing loudly. Imme- 
diately after you have entered all (the wigwams) then you will like- 
wise walk in a circle as large as the town may be. You will begin 
