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tothe rising sun; and the spectators were de. 
sired not to block up entirely the front of the 
building, but to leave a lane for the entrance or 
exit of some influence of which they could not 
give me a correct description. Several Indians, 
who lay on the outside of the sweating-house as 
spectators, seemed to regard the proceedings with 
very little awe, and were extremely free in the 
remarks, and jokes they passed upon the condi-. 
tion of the sweaters, and even of Kepoochikawn 
himself. One of them made a remark, that the 
shawl would have been much better bestowed: 
upon himself than upon. Kepoochikawn, but the. 
same fellow, afterwards stripped. and ieee in 
the ceremony. 
I did not learn that the Indians worships any 
other god by a specific name. They often refer 
however, to the Keetchee-Maneeto, or Great. 
Master of Life ; and to an evil spirit, or Maatche- 
_ Maneeto. They also speak of Weettako, a. 
kind of vampyre or devil, into which those who 
have fed on human flesh are transformed. 
Whilst at Carlton, I took an opportunity of 
asking a communicative old Indian, of the Black- 
foot nation, his opinion of a future state ; he re- 
plied, that they had heard from their fathers, that 
the souls of the departed have to scramble with 
great labour up the sides of a steep mountain, 
