MICHELSON. ] THE SINGING AROUND RITE. 611 
they circled the size of the village, beating the drum. When they 
were finished, then they again ceased being sick. Then he again gave 
instructions to his fellow-members of They who go about singing, 
“ Now, (the next time) when I am not here, you must begin to form 
some plan of your own, if you can help (?) anyone if he is stricken 
with disease. For I shall not continue to exist as a man forever. 
As long as you continue to conduct (this ceremony) uprightly, so long 
will it be the same. You must depend upon it. You must continue 
to initiate those who shall continue to exist as mortals in the future 
as your successors,” he said to them. 
When he was about fifty years old (the one blessed) died. It was 
because he permitted it. 
I do not know if this is so. It is merely what has been told. 
