MICHELSON. ] WHEN RELIGION WAS BROUGHT HERE. AMAL 
of for us, that is why we have this performance all night.” At 
midnight when they eat, the drum is fed and made to eat with them. 
“Our grandfather will derive benefit and will continue to see an 
equal amount of this food as the dead. As big as this sky of yours 
has been made so large has your breath been made. You must not 
misinterpret to your fellow manitous what your grandchildren (say) 
when anything happens to their lives. And the size the manitous 
have made their earth, is the size your breath has been made. You 
must tell carefully and uprightly what your grandchildren pray for. 
For that is why you were ordered to come here in person and were 
told this so that you would tell abroad truthfully (how) my life 
(has been),’’ is what they are accustomed to say to their drum when 
anything happens to them (i. e., when they die). 
And verily (the people were told), “When anything happens to you 
as you live, you must depend upon your grandfather to restore your 
life. Moreover this your drum, you must take care of it so that 
all your dead whom you have lost sight of shall be able to come back 
to life at the time when this earth is remade, when another fresh 
earth has been made, that they may again be mortals at that time. 
If you take good care of drum (and) if you do not dodge the way I 
bless you, you should worship me. You must place food. Your 
ceremonial runner will take proper care so that I shall know what 
you bring me. And when you lose sight of each other, the belt- 
man must dance for (the dead) so that it will be known that he 
has ceased to live. Then he will be taken up, if you do so. And 
every evening you must cause your grandfather to resound so that 
you may tell God who blessed me ”’ they were told (by Panani'kwi*’). 
