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lyoZ.^ ^>r'vs/r, ?O/ member ok ike Lccrst Locietv. ^11 tbs men stood, armed witb bow and arrow, lacing tbs prisoner, dike leader tben started a war-song, and all began to dance. lVt a given signal a number ok tire dancers stopped, and discbarged tbeir arrows at tbe prisoner, lbev at once stepped back, and anotber group did tbe sarne, group succeeding group till eacb trad sbot several tirnes. lbe prisoner being dead, eacli rnan pulled out krom tire bodv ns manv wbole arrows as lie could, and preserved tlrenr tor use in war. 8uclr arrows were never used tor ordinarv lrunting. Ik a person ok distinction were trilled in an attack, and tire bodv or lread could de secured, it was tied to tlre pole on returning to tlrs lrorne village, and treated as described in tlre case ok tlrs live prisoner. Lmoks-signals would seenr to lrave been used to some extent, lroles being dug in tke ground and killed witb combustibles wbicb produced a dense smoke, wbicb, bg narrowing tbs open ing ok tlre bole, ascended in a column to a considerable beigbt.' O-iNLS LNO ^.i^nsL^LX'rs. — lVpart krom tbs regular gam bling-games, tbere were a number ok otber games in wbicb tbe gambling-element, wbile always present, was not so marked, kirst among tbess was kootball. Uris game seems to bave been mucb more common in tbe mountains tban in tbe Lacramento Vallev, and was placed exclusively b^ men. Iwo poles were set up about seven metres apart, and kour or six placers ranged in line witb eacb pole, tbe placers standing krom tbirtv to bktv metres apart, and korming parallel lines, lbs two end men kartbest krom tbsir respective goals eacb bad a buck skin ball stukked witb deer-bair, and varying krom bkteen to twenty centimetres in diameter, ^.t a given signal eacb kicked bis ball toward bis goal, and ran akter it. lbs second man in tbe line tben kicked it on kartber to tbe tbird, wbo in bis turn kicked it to tbe kourtb; and tbus it was passed krom one to anotbsr, tbat side being tbe winner wbose ball was brst to reacb tbe goal, lbs gams was tbs occasion ok great excitement, villages placing against eacb otber usually; and it was a great kavorite wben anv considerable gatbering ok