acclamations? The like cannot be found in any other countries. In like manner, they sing on other religious occasions, and at their feasts of love, _Ale-Yo Ale-Yo_; which is אל, the divine name, by his attribute of omnipotence; and י, alluding to יהוה. They sing likewise _Hewah Hewah_, which is הוה “the immortal soul;” drawn from the divine essential name, {97} as deriving its rational faculties from YOHEWAH. Those words that they sing in their religious dances, they never repeat at any other time; which seems to have greatly occasioned the loss of the meaning of their divine hymns; for I believe they are now so corrupt, as not to understand either the spiritual or literal meaning of what they sing, any further than by allusion. In their circuiting dances, they frequently sing on a bass key, _Alué Alué_, _Aluhé, Aluhé_, and _Aluwàh Aluwàh_, which is the Hebrew אלוה. They likewise sing _Shilù-Yó, Shilù-Yó_, _Shilù-Hé Shilù-Hé_, _Shilù-Wàh, Shilù-Wàh_, and _Shilù-Hàh Shilù-Hàh_. They transpose them also several ways, but with the very same notes. The three terminations make up in their order the four-lettered divine name. _Hah_ is a note of gladness—the word preceding it, _Shilù_, seems to express the predicted human and divine שילוה, Shiloh, who was to be the purifier, and peace-maker. They continue their grateful divine hymns for the space of fifteen minutes, when the dance breaks up. As they degenerate, they lengthen their dances, and shorten the time of their fasts and purifications; insomuch, that they have so exceedingly corrupted their primitive rites and customs, within the space of the last thirty years, that, at the same rate of declension, there will not be long a possibility of tracing their origin, but by their dialects, and war-customs.