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The songs are given in no copy precisely in the order in which 

 they are used, the roll call song, for instance, being, partly sung on 

 the way to the woodside fire, being interrupted by the ceremonies 

 there. On leaving- that it is resumed, either from the beginning or 

 the interruption, but is terminated soon after reaching the council 

 house. The words of mutual greeting follow in this appropriate 

 place, and a mourning chant succeeds. Then a curtain is hung 

 across the center of the council house, dividing the two brother- 

 hoods. On the side where the visiting brothers are seated, seven 

 bunches of wampum are hung over a stick, and several Indians, with 

 bowed heads, sing the Great Hymn over these. The effect is fine. 

 The curtain is then removed, having been intended to represent the 

 way in which women cover the head while looking on the dead. A 

 chief of the condoling party takes the wampum, a bunch at a time, 

 holding it in his hand and chanting a sympathetic speech. [See 

 sixth tune] This commences in a very peculiar way, but other- 

 wise the chant is almost monotonous. At the end of each division 

 he delivers wampum to the mourners, but the speech seems to call 

 for more wampum. The curtain is hung again, the mourners sing 

 the Great Hymn, and the curtain is finally taken away. Then the 

 mourners speak to the visitors. They have received but six bunches, 

 the first having been replaced at once on the stick. Usually now 

 the one who has delivered the mourning wampum acts for the other 

 brotherhood, going across the central space and facing the other 

 way. 



The chant and ceremony are repeated by them in turn, the wam- 

 pum being given back with a slight change in words. This form 

 Mr Hale found in what he thought the Onondaga dialect, but which 

 was mainly Mohawk. He called it the Book of the Younger Na- 

 tions, but it is used by either brotherhood as circumstances require, 

 a few words being changed. Daniel La Fort's manuscript was used 

 by Mr Hale, slight variations occurring in copying it, but none 

 affecting the sense. Having the original in his hands the writer 

 went carefully over this with the Rev. Albert Cusick ( Sa-go-na- 

 qua-de), who had used this part of the installation ceremony. The 

 proper sounds are given and there is a division into words and syl- 

 lables. In repeating this form, great stress is laid upon a syllable 

 or word at intervals, and the rest follows in a rapid monotone. 



