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tlie sides of the grave down each end and near the 

 top thereof, where the other ends lie on the ridge 

 pole, so that they are declining like the roof of a 

 house. These being very thick placed, they cover 

 them many times double with bark, then they 

 throw the earth thereon that came out of the grave, 

 and beat it down verj^ firm ; by this means the 

 dead body lies in a vault, nothing touching him ; 

 so that when I saw this way of burial I was mighti- 

 ly pleased with it^ esteeming it very decent and 

 pretty, as having seen a great many christians bu- 

 ried without the tenth part of that ceremony and 

 decency. J^ow, when the flesh is rotted and 

 moulded from the bone, they take up the carcass 

 and clean the bones and joint them together; af- 

 terwards they dress them up in pure white dressed 

 deer skins^ and lay them amongst their grandees 

 and kings in the quiogozon, which is their royal 

 tomb or burial place of their kings and war cap- 

 tains. This is a very large magniticent cabin, ac- 

 cording to their building, which is raised at the 

 public charge of the nation, and maintained in a 

 great deal of form and neatness. About seven 

 feet high is a floor or loft made, on which lie all 

 their princes and great men that have died for 

 several hundred years, all attired in the dress I 

 before told you of. No person is to have his bones 

 lie here, and to be thus dressed, unless he gives a 

 round sum of their money to the rulers for admit- 

 tance. If they remove never so far, to live in a 

 foreign countiy, ihoy never fail to take all these 



