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LETTER XVI. 



To the fame. 



Mourning and Manner of burying the Dead ar,io7ig the 

 Allibamohs ; Jufice do7te to the Chevalier d'Er- 

 neville, for a Soldier killed by a young Indian : 

 their Religion ; their Means of catching the Roc- 

 buck and the ivild Turkies, 



SIR, 



??^X^ H E day before yefterday I received 

 ^ T g1 one of your letters, which informs me 

 y^^'^yi that you are in good health, and that 

 you continue to give me marks of your rememr 

 brance of me. In my preceding letter, I fpoke 

 to you of the marriage of the Indians ; I fhall 

 now proceed to defcribe their mourning. When 

 a grand chief of the nation dies, this mourning 

 confifts in not walhing nor combing themfelves ; 

 ihe men daub their whole body with foot, mixed 



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