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putrefaction, when his legs fell apart from putrefaction, when his body had become putrified, when his arms fell apart from putrefaction, when his hair fell from his head from putrefaction! There is nothing very interesting in the mat-weaving ceremony aside from the rite that is performed by the man to be initiated into that degree and the woman who is asked to weave the mat. A part of the songs of the "Six Songs", are added to the "Seven Songs", and others omitted, and the addition of the rite performed by the candidate and the weaver, make the Ca'-tha-dse, a mat-weaving Degree. This man did not know the ritual recited by the weaver but he referred me to a woman who does know and she is the woman who has promised to give me her sacred loom. I expect it will require a good deal of coaxing to get her to recite the ritual but I am going to try hard to get her to do it. While this