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tural curioficies with it-, I was willing to treat: 

 ^bout it with the Indian pried who ferved it, 

 offering him European goods in return, and rcr 

 prefenting to him that the adoration of this anir 

 mal was an abufe ; that he ought, as wp do^ 

 p worfliip the Greai Spirit, or Author of Nar 

 ture \ but this cunning prieft of the devil, in 

 owning that his fuperflitious countrymen adorec} 

 every thing uncommon, t:old me, that he ex- 

 pedled to make a great profit of his Manitou\ 

 that, being a phyfician, and a juggler befides, he 

 could eafily make them believe that his deity eat 

 with the evil fpirit at night, and that they mufb 

 bring him victuals into his hut, and fine furs to 

 drefs him out. 



Thus this impoftor, by his artful difcourfes, 

 gives weight to the errors and prejudices of thele 

 ignorant people. Thefe fellows makp them bcr 

 lieve, that they converfe with the (Jeyil at night, 

 whom the Indians are rnuch afraid of, becaufe 

 he can only do hra-m \ whereas they fay the Great 

 Sprit, being good, can do them no h^rt. 



I fhalj finifli my letter by an account of the 

 tragic death of an Indian of the nation oi CoUa- 

 pijfasy who facrificed himfelf for his fon •, I have 



admired 



