Tupei, the high priest, undertook to perform the double office of butcher and cook.

He first killed him by holding his hands close over his mouth and nose for the space of a quarter of an hour.

A hole was then made in the ground about a foot deep, in which a fire was kindled, and some small stones placed in layers, alternately with the wood, to be heated.

The dog was then singed, scraped with a shell, and the hair taken off as clean as if he had been scalded in hot water.

He was then cut up with the same instrument, and his entrails carefully washed.