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roguish Tricks in this Woi^ld, and ivhether art tliou gone now 

 to play thy Tricks. When the Criminal is dead and taken 

 down, they are perfectly easy, and free from all manner of 

 Concern about him, though a few Days before so unwilling 

 to deliver him up ; they generally end these Tragedies in 

 Feasting and a fit of Laughter, which puts an end to their 

 Mourning for the loss of their Friend, and never think of the 

 deceas'd more. 



Their Burials are different from each other, every Nation 

 having peculiar Methods of their own ; some of which I shall 

 here give an account of, viz. They raise a Mole of Earth, 

 the Mould whereof they take great pains to make smooth, 

 and is higher or lower according to the Dignity of the Per- 

 son deceas'd, whose Monument it is, over which there is a 

 Shade or Umbrella, made Ridge-ways, like the Roof of a 

 House, this is supported by nine Stakes or small Posts 

 driven into the Ground, the Grave being about six or eight 

 Feet in length, and near four Feet in breadth, about which 

 they hang Gourds, Feathers, and such like Trophies placed 

 by the dead Man's Relations, in respect to him in the Grave. 

 The other parts of the Funeral Rights are thus : As soon as 

 the Party is dead, they lay the Corps upon a piece of the 

 Bark of a Tree in the Sun, seasoning or embalming it with 

 a small Root beaten to Powder, which they have in plenty, 

 but will never discover to the Europeans where it grows, it 

 looks as red as Vermillion, which they mix with Bears-oil, to 

 beautifie and preserve their Hair. After the Carcase has lain 

 a Day or two in the Sun, they remove and lay it upon 

 Crotches made for that purpose to support it from the Earth ; 

 they anoint it all over with the above-mentioned Oyntment 

 made of the Red Root and Bears-grease; when this is done, 

 they cover it all over very exactly with the Barks of the 



Pine. 



