. To California and back;. posed to be known to only three of thetribe, namely, the high priest, the neophyte who is intraining to inherit that office, and the eldest the event of the death of any one of these threeit is imparted to a successor, and under any othercircumstances its betrayal is punishable by year, three days before the great day of theceremony, the intending participants enter upon astrict fast, which is not broken until the dance hasbeen concluded. In the intervening period thesecret decoction is freely administered by the venera-ble medicine-man, and the
. To California and back;. posed to be known to only three of thetribe, namely, the high priest, the neophyte who is intraining to inherit that office, and the eldest the event of the death of any one of these threeit is imparted to a successor, and under any othercircumstances its betrayal is punishable by year, three days before the great day of theceremony, the intending participants enter upon astrict fast, which is not broken until the dance hasbeen concluded. In the intervening period thesecret decoction is freely administered by the venera-ble medicine-man, and the dancers employ their leis-ure in capturing rattlesnakes in the desert. Severalhundred of the hideous reptiles are thus collectedand imprisoned in a little corral. Upon the morningof the fourth day, at the appointed hour, the dancersboldly enter the corral, and seizing a snake in eachhand rush out to join in the mystic savage authority vouches for the fact thatrattlesnakes are not unfanged or in anywise36.
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