Their number was not yet complete; the Tapop, Tyope, the Koshare Naua were there, but neither the Caciques nor the Chayani nor the Maseua had put in an appearance.

Everybody was silent, hardly a word was heard from time to time, seldom a whisper.

The men were in part exhausted by long penitence, but mostly depressed as if some nightmare was still weighing upon them.

The obligation to be silent imposed by the medicine-man was yet in force.
One by one those who were lacking came.

The medicine-men appeared at last, and only the yaya and the maseua were missing.