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and immediately rifes into a bright dame ('but 
how this is effedfied I did not plainly apprehend ; 
I faw no perlon fet fire to it ; there might have 
been fire left on the earth, however I neither faw 
nor fmelt fire or frnoke until the blaze inftantly 
afcended upwards), which gradually and flowly 
creeps round the centre pillar, with the courfe of 
the fun, feeding on the dry canes, and affords a 
cheerful, gentle and fufiicient light until the 
circle is confurned, when the council breaks up. 
Soon after this illumination takes place, the aged 
chiefs and warriors are feared on their cabins or 
fiophas, on the fide of the houfe oppofite the 
door, in three daffies or ranks, riling a little, one 
above or behind the other ; and the white peo- 
ple and red people of confederate towns in the 
like order on the left hand ; a tranfverfe range 
of pillars, Supporting a thin clay wall about 
breafi: high, feparating them : the king’s cabin 
or feat is in front ; the next to the back of it the 
head warrior's ; and the third or laft accommo- 
dates the young warriors, &c» The great war 
chief’s feat or place is on the fame cabin with* 
and immediately to the left hand of, the king, 
and next to the white people ; and to the right 
hand of the mico or king the mod venerable 
head-men and warriors are feated. The affembly 
being now feated in order, and the houfe illu- 
minated, two middle aged men, who perform the 
office of flaves or fervants, pro tempore, come in 
together at the door, each having very large 
conch Shells full of black drink, and advance 
with How, uniform and fteady fieps, their eyes or 
countenances lifted up, finging very low but 
fweetly ; they come within fix or eight paces of 
the king’s and white people’s cabins, when they 
ft op together, and each refts his (hell on a tripos 
