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form and figure such as they use, hut of another form, she heing unahle 

 to give the design) , she heheld there a great numher of people, men and 

 women (but all of them Indians), some of them playing games, others 

 dancing, the same games and dances that they have, and others bathing 

 in a great arroyo of very crystalline water. They arrived at the house 

 or palace of Chinigchinix, but he did not permit them to enter, telling 

 them that the woman could not live with them yet, that they would give 

 her something to eat and that she should return to her country. They 

 gave her to eat a very savory and good acorn mush such as she had 

 never tasted, and much of it, and after she had eaten well, she returned 

 to her rancheria, without having seen Chinigchinix. This is her account. 

 It is at once seen to be nothing more than a mere delirium. 



Note: I went to visit this woman when she was in her paroxysm and in the 

 most violent part of her fever, and seeing that she was shaking and gnashing her 

 teeth very much, and with her mouth very dry, I gave her with my own hand 

 a glass of warm water with sugar, and she drank it all up. This water perhaps 

 may have been the acorn mush that was so good, which they gave her at the 

 house of Qiinigchinix. She began to perspire and came to herself, the fever 

 letting loose of her, from which she recovered in a short time. The other 

 accounts that they relate are about the same as what has been related above. 



Others relate, and this is handed down from antiquity, that when 

 the Indians died, although they burned them after death, the heart 

 did not burn, that is, the spirit or soul (for the heart of flesh of 

 course had to be consumed like the rest of the body), and that this 

 spirit or soul went to stay at another place, where Chinigchinix 

 destined it, but it is to be noted that if it was a chief or satrap, they 

 went to Heaven, and were placed among the stars, and therefore 

 they say that especially the planets and those large stars which are 

 very brilliant, are the souls of chiefs or Puplem. Note: The reason that 

 they give why only these latter should go to Heaven and become stars is that 

 Eno, who was the eater of [human] flesh, before they were cremated ate his 

 piece [of flesh] frona them, but if it happened that the Eno did not eat of their 

 flesh, as in case by drowning or [of death] at the hands of their enemies, etc.. 

 he [the chief or satrap] did not then go to Heaven, but to another place where 

 Chinigchinix destined him. 



Others Chinigchinix stationed along the ocean shore or through the 

 hills, ranges, valleys or mountains, and there they remained without 

 the period of time being designated, but such time as Chinigchinix de- 

 sired, but what they became later, if they returned to their bodies 

 or went to another place, this they do not know. And if the Indians, 

 when going from one place to another, see or imagine [they see] 

 something extraordinary, they say that that is the soul of some dead 

 person, and they hold it a bad omen, fearing some misfortune, for 



