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wash-cloth etc. that I had to let him take the things he touched with his fingers and face. He is not nice like old Saucy Calf and Wa-xri-zhi. But the songs he has given! You will be interested in transcribing them. They are simple, with a very few exceptions, and in some respects more interesting than the songs given by Saucy Calf, musically. The wi-gi-e are not very complet but they give an idea of the thoughts in the mind of the men who composed them. I wrote you either yesterday or the day before, and in the letter I mentioned the spirit song in the degree given by Wa-sho-she. The music of the song was well as the words, is very queer. The Honga, to whom these songs are rituals belong, represent the the