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dley (liall go after their death into a very fertile 

 country, where they Ihall want neither wives 

 nor proper places for hiinting, and that every 

 thing will be eafy to them there ; but that oii the 

 contrary, if they have behaved themfelves fool- 

 iflily, and difregarded the great Spirit, they will 

 come into a barren land fiill of thorns and 

 briars, where there will be no hunting, and no 

 wives. This is all I have been able to learn 

 concerning the belief of thefe jpeople of Another 

 life. 



The Allihajf'.ons bury their dead in a fitting po- 

 fture ; in order to juftify this cuftorn they fay, 

 that man is upright, and has his head turned to- 

 wards heaven, which is to be his habitation. 

 They give to them a calumet, and fome tobacco 

 to fmoke, that they may make peace with the 

 inhabitants of the other world. If the corpfe be 

 of a warrior, he is buried with his arms^ which 

 are a mufket, fome powder and bullets, a qui- 

 ver full of arrows, a bow, and an hatchet or club ; 

 and befides thefe a mirror -^^ and fome vermilion 

 with which they may drefs thenafelves in the 

 other world. 



Vol. L S When 



• TKe young Indians are never without a little hatchet or 

 a mirror hung on their \vril>- 



