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Province South Carolina

has, by spitting upon each in particular, sacrated it to this Use. During his
Installation, which always is performed in public, on the Square before the Town-
House, the Band of Musicians, consisting of singers (: or rather howlers :)
concerted with Rattles and Drums set in the Center of the Square under two May
Poles, and all the Sex in a very modest Dress and grave Look, with gazing to
the right or left, dance two and two, File after File, whom the King, when
installed in his Royal Robes, follows a dancing; this Savage Monarch, much
resembling a Hercules in his Skins, is followed by all the Warriors and Gun-men
with different Arms in Batallion; although savage as the Music and their Dance
appears, yet there is the nicest Regularaty kept up, so that all right and left
Feet are lifted up and put down on the Ground in conformity with the times observed
by the Music.

The King is obliged to dance three times round the Square, every step
which he performs is a leap in his first round, a foot from the Earth; in the next
round 18 Inches, and in the last 2 feet. This Ceremony is performed every day
a fresh, during the three days of that Feast, which they call the green Corn Feast.

Although the cherokees have an Emperr, some Kings, Warriors, Menkillers,
Ravens, and Slave Catchers (: all honourable Titles and Preferments suitable to the
Excellency of Principles conceaved by unrefined Ideas :) bestowed on their head Men;
yet they are without any Legislator, of Course without Law or Government, nor do
they pay any obedience unto their Head-Men, unless, when they go out upon a warlike
Expedition, then

The Conjuror prepares the whole Troop with medicinal Decoctions of Roots and
reduces them by fasting so, that a leather Zoon (: Belt :) with 15 or 18 inches will incompass
their Waste, after this preperation they follow their Headmen with the greatest Observance,
they neither drink more handfulls of Water (: a :) nor eat a morsel more than their
Headmen, copying in every Respect after his Example and obeying his Command,
in case even accidentaly any Fault should be committed; they acount it a bad
omen to fatal Consequences.

When the Author erected Fort Loudoun, the oftenmentioned Attakulla kulla
the great Conjuror proposed, with his Warrior and Gang to go upon an expedition
against the French in Fort Charter upon Mississipi River in order to divert their
Notions, if they should entertain any to disturb the Builders of Fort Loudoun; as
Attakulla kulla passed the Fort with his Troop, he made a short Stop in oder to
give the Garrison time to prepare for a military Salute with the great Guns, which
he in Consequence of his Departure did receive; during his Halt at the Fort, his
Warrior came to take leave from the Author, who, according to the Ceremonies with
which he always received, the Indian Warriors complimented him with a Bowl
of Punch, the Warrior (: who was a better judge of the sacredness to his martial Religion,
then the author had a right to be :) drank very freely, either not being so superstitious

(: a :) their way of drinking is by throwing the Water with their Hands into their mouth.