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blankets, &c., after which they were again buried 

 in one grave. 



Q. Is there any subsequent visitation of the 

 dead ? whether are they disposed of separately or 

 in conjunction with other bodies? 



A. (Anderson.) Yes, by the widow mourning 

 for her husband, the husband for the wife, or the 

 parent for the child. Human nature, whether 

 under a tawny skin or a white one, is equally the 

 same. 



Q. What is the received idea respecting a 

 future state? does it bear the character of trans- 

 migration, invisible existence about their ac- 

 customed haunts, or removal to a distant 

 abode ? 



A. (Tolmie.} The Indian notions of a future 

 state are, as far as I have been able to learn, dim 

 and indistinct, but that they have notions of the 

 kind is evidenced by the placing of bundles of 

 mocassins in the grave as if for a journey, and 

 the killing of horses, and of slaves, on the coast, 

 to accompany the deceased. The Flatheads 

 (Sailish and Kalleespelm), it is said, believed the 

 Sun to be the Supreme Being, and that after 

 death the good, i. e. the brave and generous, 

 went to the Sun, while the bad remained 

 near the earth and troubled the living; others 



