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dead bones along with them, though the tedious- 

 ness of their short daily marches keeps them never 

 so long on their journey. They reverence and 

 adore this quiogozon with all the veneration and 

 respect that is possible for such a people to dis- 

 charge, and had rather lose all than have any vio- 

 lence or injury offered thereto. 



These savages differ some small matter in their 

 burials ; some burying right upwards, and other- 

 wise, as you are acquainted withal in my journal 

 from South to E'orth Carolina ; yet they all agree 

 in their mourning, which isj to appear every night 

 at the sepulchre, and howl and weep in a very 

 dismal manner, having their faces dawbed over 

 with lightwood soot, (which is the same as lamp- 

 black) and bear's oil. This renders them as black 

 as it is possible to make themselves, so that theirs 

 very much resemble the faces of executed men 

 boiled in tar. If the dead person was a grandee, 

 tojcarry on the funeral ceremonies, they hire people 

 to cry and lament over the dead man. Of this 

 sort there are several that practice it for a liveli- 

 hood, and are very expert at shedding abundance 

 of tears, and howling like wolves, and so discharg- 

 ing their office with abundance of hypocrisy and 

 art. The women are never accompanied with these 

 ceremonies after death, and to what world they 

 allot that sex, I never understood, unless to wait 

 on their dead husbands : but they have more wit 

 than some of the other eastern nations, who sacrifice 

 themselves to accompany their husbands into the 



