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ject : and in confirmation of wliat T have said, shall 

 relate some further particiilars. 



Every Sunday in the year, the doctrinal priests in- 

 struct their parish in the articles of Christianity with 

 indefatigable zeal: also, when any Indian is sick, they 

 never fail to visit and exhort him to prepare for a 

 comfortable passage into eternity, adding whatever 

 they judge may conduce to the opening the eyes of 

 his understanding; pathetically expatiating on the 

 justice and hiercy of God, - the nature of deatli, the 

 certainty of an approaching judgement, and his pre- 

 sent (larger. After speaking thus a considerable time, 

 Svithou't a word from the patient, or the least sign of 

 emotion in his countenance, the gootl man proceeds 

 to remind him oí his sins, and exhorts him to ii>sinccre 

 repentan-ce, and to implóríg the mercy of his Creator ; 

 as, othéi'wisC.'hi's soul will bepunislicd to all'eternitV. 

 The Indian at length ans-^crs, with a serene faintness, 

 "So it will be, father ("leaning, tha;t things will 

 happen as 'lie'' has t predicted ; but does 'not under- 

 stand in wh&t these threatened sufferings consist. 

 Ihav^e often 'heard priests of those tOAvhs^ Jand men 

 of parts' arid* learning, tall-i ' with gteat 'concern 

 on this 'subject. Hence it' is that there are very 

 few Indians tiv whom tibié ■hoíy''euchmisiDi.is adm^i- 

 nistered : nbr Would* t'h(>se of the house, where a sick 

 person lies, ever give notice of it to the priest, were 

 they not afraid of the pumshment which the law in 

 these cases inflicts : and even as it is, tjiey often ne- 

 glect this dutVj and the patient dios w-ithotit-receiving 

 the sacrament. . s-iq«)b imuicfi li^ih lo .uaT^r" 



In theiY marriages, they'Vun counter to the senti- 

 ments of air nations, esteeming what oihers detest ; 

 a virgin beirig "never tliegbjcct of their choice : "for 

 they look on it as a^ siite sign, that she who has not 

 been known to other's, can have nothing pleasing 

 about her. 



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