194 Dr. Stiles? account of a stone bust. 
cur in asserting, that the Indians were once idolaters. Their worship, 
though sometimes paid to the Good Being, yet by their own confes- 
sion was chiefly rendered to Chepi, or the evil Manitoo, or Evil Spir- 
its. Whether the Stone Image, or dressed pieces of wood, which 
they also used, denoted a deceased person, or departed human spirit, 
like Baal of old, or the Devil, must remain uncertain, until our future 
travellers shall have learned the true mythology, now remaining in full 
vigour among the Chippewas, and the other western tribes of Indians, 
who still glory in their ancestorial Religion. 
