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ried with them,”* says an intelligent Chero- 
kee, in some manuscript notes concerning his 
ancestors, [ have in my possession: and 
have been assured by credible natives, that, 
within their recollection, they have seen, at 
these burials, provisions, salt, and other ne- 
cessaries, interred with the dead for their 
long journey. 
There are very few of the prairie Indians 
but practise something of this kind: man 
kill the favorite hunting-horses, and deposite 
the arms, etc., of the deceased, for his use in 
the chase, when he arrives at the ‘happy hunt- 
ing ground. We are also informed by Capt. 
Bonneville, and other travellers, that this is 
practised by some, if not all, of the natives 
beyond the Rocky Mountains. The same 
is told of the Navajoes, Apaches, and 
other uncatholicized tribes of the north of 
Mexico. : 
Peter Martyr, a learned and celebrated pro- 
testant divine, who wrote his “ Decades of 
the Newe Worlde” towards the middle of the 
sixteenth century, observes that, “in many 
places of the firme lande, when any of the 
kynges dye, all his householde servauntes, as 
well women as men which have continually 
served hym, kyl themselves, beleavynge, as 
they are taught by the devyl Tuyra, that they 
which kyll themselves when the kynge dyeth, 
go with hym to heaven and serve hym in the 
same place and office as they dyd before on 
* Adair, who resided forty years with the southern Indians, pre- 
vious to 1775, speaks of the same among them all. 
