New Jerfey, Raccoon. 1 1 7 



was unknown to the old Swedes, but of 

 which he aflured me that it was not the 

 common mullein, or Verbafcum Thapfus, 

 which is generally called Indian Tobacco 

 here*. 



As to their religion, the old man 

 thought it very trifling, and even believed 

 that they had none at all ; when they heard 

 loud claps of thunder, they faid that the 

 evil fpirit was angry; fome of them faid 

 that they believed in a God, who lives in 

 heaven. The old Swede once walked with 

 an Indian, and they met with a red-fpotted 

 fnake on the road : the old man therefore 

 went to feek a flick in order to kill the 

 fnake ; but the Indian begged he would not 

 touch it, becaufe he adored it : perhaps the 

 Swede would not have killed it, but on 

 hearing that it was the Indian's deity, he 

 took a flick and killed it, in the prefence 

 of the Indian, faying : Becaufe thou be- 

 liever!: in it, I think myfelf obliged to kill 

 it. Sometimes the Indians came into the 

 Swedijh churches, looked at them, heard 

 them, and went away again, after a while* 

 One day as this old Swede was at church, 

 and did not fmg, becaufe he had no Pfalm- 

 book by him, one of the Indians, who was 



H 3 well 



* In the S--wediJb language WHJkt Teback. 



