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his left hand remaining at his breast, and his eyes following his right, — ^ go 

 about a little while longer, but will be cut off shortly and my spirit ivill go aivay 

 (or will die). Placing the thumbs and forefingers again in such a position 

 as if he held a small thread between the thumb and forefinger of each hand, 

 and the hands touching each other, he drew his hands slowly from each 

 other, as if he were stretching a piece of gum-elastic; then laying his right 

 hand on me, he extended the left hand in a horizontal position, fingers 

 extended and closed, and brought down his right hand with fingers extended 

 and together, so as to just miss the tips of the fingers of his left hand; then 

 placing his left forefinger and thumb against his heart, he acted as if he 

 took a hair from the forefinger and thumb of his left hand with the fore- 

 finger and thumb of the right, and slowly cast it from him, only letting his 

 left hand remain at his breast, and let the index-finger of the right hand 

 point outward toward the distant horizon, — After a long time you die. When 

 placing his left hand upon himself and his right hand upon me, he extended 

 them upward over his head and clasped them there, — We then meet in heaven. 

 Pointing upward, then to himself, then to me, he closed the third and little 

 finger of his right hand, laying his thumb over them, then extending his 

 first and second fingers about as far apart as the eyes, he brought his hand 

 to his eyes, fingers pointing outward, and shot his hand outward, — I see you 

 up there. Pointing to me, then giving the last above-described sign of 

 "look," then pointing to himself, he made the sign as if stretching out a 

 piece of gum-elastic between the fingers of his left and right hands, and 

 then made the sign of "cut-off" before described, and then extended the 

 palm of the right hand horizontally a foot from his waist, inside downward, 

 then suddenly threw it half over and from him, as if you were to toss a 

 chip from the back of the hand (this is the negative sign everywhere 

 used among these Indians), — I" would see him a long time, which should never 

 be cut off, i. e., always. 



Pointing upward, then rubbing the back of his left hand lightly 

 with the forefinger of his right, he again gave the negative sign, — 

 No Indian there (in heaven). Pointing upward, then rubbing his fore- 

 finger over the back of my hand, he again made the negative sign, — 

 No white man there. He made the same sign again, only he felt his hair 



