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Charon, not that there is any probability that 

 the one was copied from the other, as the human 

 mind, when placed in similar situations, will 

 aive birth to the same ideas. The soul> when 

 separated from the body, exercises in another 

 life the same functions that it performed in this, 

 with no other difference except that they are un- 

 accompanied with fatigue or satiety. Husbands 

 have there the same wives as they had on earth, 

 but the latter have no children, as that happy 

 country cannot be inhabited by any except the 

 spirits of the dead, and every thing there is 

 spiritual or analogous to it. 



According to their theory, the soul, notwith- 

 standing its new condition of life, never loses its 

 original attachments, and -when the spirits of 

 their countrymen return., as they frequently do, 

 they fight furiously with those of their enemies, 

 whenever they meet with them in the air, and 

 *these conibiits are the origin of tempests, thunder, 

 and lightning. Not a storm happens upon the 

 Andes or the ocean, which they do not ascribe 

 to a battle between the souls of their fellow- 

 countrymen and those of the Spaniards ; they 

 say that the roaring of the wind is the trampling 

 of their horses, the noise of the thunder that of 

 their drums, and the flashes of lightning the fire 

 of the artillery. If the storm takes its course 

 towards the Spanish territory, they affirm that 

 their spirits have put to flight those of the Spa- 



