this circle, spreading as it proceeds round and round, often repeated from right to left, every revolution increases its diameter, and it at length extends to the distance of 10 or 12 feet from the center, more or less, according to the length of time the assembly or meeting is to continue. By the time these preparations are accomplished, it is night, and the assembly have taken their seats in order. The exterior extremity or outer end of the spiral circle takes fire and immediately rises into a bright flame (but how this is effected I did not plainly apprehend; I saw no person set fire to it; there might have been fire left on the earth; however, I neither saw nor smelt fire or smoke until the blaze instantly ascended upwards), which gradually and slowly creeps round the center pillar, with the course of the fire, feeding on the dry canes, and affords a cheerful, gentle, and sufficient light until the circle is consumed, when the council breaks up. Soon after this illumination takes place the aged chiefs and warriors are seated on their cabins or sofas, on the side of the house opposite the door, in three classes or ranks, rising a little one above or behind the other; and the white people and red people of confederate towns in like order on the left hand, a transverse range of pillars, supporting a thin clay wall about breast high, separating them; the king’s cabin or seat is in front; the next to the back of it the head warriors’, and the third or last accommodates the young warriors, etc.