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Ihese war chants, rituals, etc. They abound in archaic terms and are 

 fraught with great interest, but belong more properly to another de- 

 partment of Zufii worship than that of the mere fetichism ; as, indeed, do 

 most other recitations, chants, etc., of the War society, in any way con- 

 nected with this worship. 



Before following the trail of an enemy, on finding his camp, or on 

 overtaking and destroying him, many ceremonials are performed, many 

 prayers are uttered, much the same as those described relative to the 

 chase, save that they are more elaborate and more irrelevant to the 

 subject in hand. As with the Hunter, so with the Warrior, the fetich 

 is fed on the life-blood of the slain. 



