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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.)—Y es, 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, 2. e. the brave and generous, 
went to the Sun, while the bad remained 
near the earth and troubled the living; others 
