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belonging to the Ratirras, and are Calld Oboo Nooe — at them the Chief of the Padtoo and all the Ratirra and priests attend, and when the Provisions are taken out of the Oven, the Preists make a long Prayer by Way of Grace, and taking a Piece of Bamboo for a knife (if they have knives they must not be brought there else they Could not carry them away again) and taking a part [of] each sort with a bit of Yava puts them on a Plantain leaf and with a Prayer offers them on the alter or on top of the House. Mean time some of the rest Desect the Hog or Hogs and distribute them as before discribed and they begin, but should a Stranger pass at the time, they send to invite him and if he is not known to any present, they enquire if He be a Raa or Noa man, to which he answers truely and if he be Raa or Sacred he partakes of the Feast; if Noa or unhallowed He refuses, none ever attempting to impose on Strangers in such Matters as they are liable to be found out afterwards, when Death would be the result of the Fraud.
The Weomen have also their Feasts, which are Calld Oehumoo; they are Generally of Fish. Of these their Male Servants May partake — and so may any other Man they are held on the Common Ground in such place as they find Convenient.
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