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flone-wall. From time to time they expofe near the grave fruits 

 and other eatables, that according to their opinion the deceafed may 

 fuck them : for they fuppofe the fouls of thofe who are gone to 

 heaven, return on the fourth day and live invifibly among their 



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friends and relations. Thefe fouls are looked upon as good genii, 

 and in every undertaking they are addreifed for affiftance and fuc 



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cefs, the priells being fuppofed to have an intercourfe with them. 



Thefe and many other traditional doctrines are communicated by 

 certain teachers to the youth of botk fexes, in houfes appropriated 

 for that purpofe. The boys efpecialiy learn the names, and 

 directions of the 12 winds of their compafs, 

 motion of the brightefl: ftars; the lituation 



the 



names and 



and 



of the 



that though th^y 



various neighbouring ifles, and by what courfe they mufi; ileer for 

 each of them. The teachers likewife communicate to them their 



traditional doctrines of religion. It is obferved 



have no knowledge of a maker of Heaven and Earth, they however 

 acknowledge a good and great fpirit, who is the great Lord of 

 Heaven, to whom many fpirit s both good and evil are fubordinate : 



thefe fp 



celeftial beings different from> thofe who inhabit 



the Earth, they have a body, and marry in the ftyle of their chiefs, 



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The oldeil: fpirit known among them is called 



Their fon was Eliukp, 



Eliulep 



more than one wife 



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Sabucoor, and his wife's name is Halmelul 



( i. e. the great fpirit ) and their daughter Ligobuud. 



married 



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