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hunger, cold, troubles, old ugly women for their companions, with snakes, and 

 all sorts of nasty victuals to feed on. (Lawson, 1860, p. 295.) 



The Siouan tribes had temples (quiozogon) similar to those of the 

 Algonquians. Lawson describes the quiozogon as 



a very large magnificent cabin, according to their building, which is raised at 

 the public charge of the nation, and maintained in a great deal of form and 

 neatness. About seven feet high is a floor or loft made, on which lie all their 

 princes and great men that have died for several hundred years, all attired in 

 the dress I before told you of. 



He adds that when forced to migrate, they always took the bones in 

 this temple with them. 



They reverence and adore this quiozogon with all the veneration and respect 

 that is possible for such a people to discharge, and had rather lose all than have 

 any violence or injury offered thereto. (Lawson, 1860, p. 298.) 



The Waxhaw ceremonial house, which he describes in another place 

 was similar to the town house of the Creeks (see pp. 410-411 above) . 



He found such "state houses," as he calls them all along the road to 

 Sapona and then no more of them. 



Near Adshusheer, the town of the Eno and Shakori, he noted a 

 stone to which the Indians made sacrifices (Lawson, 1860, p. 99). 



As related elsewhere, priests or conjurers officiated at every funeral 

 and it was mainly they who acted as custodians of the sacred lore of the 

 tribe. Some notes regarding their costumes have been detailed else- 

 where. Lawson has the following on the practices of these men in 

 addition to what is given below in the section on medicine. After a 

 discussion of their method of treating disease, he cites the following 

 instances of seeming clairvoyance : 



One rainy night a certain Indian undermined a house made of logs, such as 

 the Swedes in America very often made, and are very strong, which belonged to 

 Seth Southwell, Esq., governor of North Carolina, and one of the proprietors. 

 There was but one place the Indian could get in at, which was very narrow; 

 the rest was secured, by having barrels of pork and other provisions set against 

 the side of the house, so that if this Indian had not exactly hit the very place 

 he undermined, it had been impossible for him to have got therein, because of 

 the full barrels that stood round the house, and barricaded it within. The 

 Indian stole sixty or eighty dressed deer skins, besides blankets, powder, shot and 

 rum, this being the Indian store house, where the trading goods were kept. 

 Now, the Indian had made his escape, but dropped some of the skins by the way 

 and they tracked his footsteps, and found him to be an Indian ; then they guessed 

 who it was, because none but that Indian had lately been near the house. 

 Thereupon, the governor sent to the Indian town that he belonged to, which was 

 the Tuskeruros, and acquainted them that if they did not deliver up the Indian, 

 who had committed the robbery, he would take a course with them, that would not 

 be very agreeable. Upon this, the Indians of the town he belonged to, brought 

 him in bound, and delivered him up to the governor, who laid him in irons. At the 

 same time, it happened that a robbery was committed amongst themselves, at the 



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