Dignified silence was maintained while the pipe thus circulated from hand to hand.

When the last guest arrived they began.
The men were seated in two rows, face to face.

Feasts of this kind usually consist of but one species of food, and on the present occasion it was an enormous caldron full of maize which had to be devoured.

About fifty sat down to eat a quantity of what may be termed thick porridge that would have been ample allowance for a hundred ordinary men.

Before commencing, San-it-sa-rish desired an aged medicine man to make an oration, which he did fluently and poetically.
Its subject was the praise of the giver of the feast.