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ditional scar upon his thigh. His third expedi- 
tion was against the Wanketzens, when he reaped 
the same laurels by killing a man. The fourth 
important crisis of his life was, during the pre- 
valence of civil broils among his own nation, 
when he had the honor, as he thought, of killing 
a Mashow, his own countryman. Those broils 
arose from a quarrel between two Mashow cap- 
tains, in consequence of which the people ar- 
ranged themselves under the leaders whose cause 
they felt disposed to support. 
The following are the Cere?nomes used to obtain 
Rain.— Morokej said he became a rain-maker 
by praying to God and burning different things 
in the fire. To procure rain, an ox is killed, 
the fat of it is chopped and mixed with dif- 
ferent kinds of Avood and leaves of trees ; and 
all these are then burned. He did not himself 
invent these methods, but obtained his informa- 
tion from old men, and had likewise, he said, 
information from God. He confessed that he 
was not always successful in bringing rain to a 
country, on which account the people blamed him 
for keeping it back, but they accused him un- 
justly. I inquired of him why^iis countrymen, 
the Mashows, had received so little rain during 
the last season. With great gravity he gave this 
reason:—" There was a Mashow man whose 
wife died, and unhappily he married another 
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