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joined in a general laugh, and covered their faces as if ashamed; 
and one of them, looking at me with only one eye across his fin 
gers, said, “ Well, we were all beasts, and like enough not one of 
us has ever observed and remarked what you say now.” Since i 
that time it was agreed to call the moon by the name of spakan n 
skukuèz, meaning the sun of the night. i 
As to the immortality of the soul, the end of the world, the 
recompense or punishment after death, they have the tradition that — 
man in dying, dies only half—that is, the body; the one “a : 
(which they anciently did not know how to designate, but mie 
afterward their ancestors called Singapens) does not die, but the l 
singapèns of the good ones go to stay with Amòtkan; though 
without knowing to what particular bliss, and the Singapèns of 
the wicked go to another place, not determined, having no e 
punishment than to be deprived of the company of Amòtkan. For 
wicked they intend liars and thieves, as they consider lymg a" 
Moreover, 
they said that the earth and the people have one day Oe 
an end, and that after this last day all the dead shall come to light 
again, and shall be placed in another land, better th 
and that after such epoch the people shall die no more- a 
Notwithstanding the power and nobility of Amòtkan a A 
melten, these were not the deities which the Flatheads worshipped: 
but Spakaní, the sun. After him came as geniuses the ane jè 7 
every kind, the beaver, the crow, the deer, etc. But Siete v 
prairie-wolf, was regarded the most powerful and a 
mankind. To show the power and favor of Sinchlep, in f the 
tors reported that there was a time when a large pat 1 
earth was inhabited by a set of giants, terrible men, "a 
every one they met with, for which they were called Nàtlis inchlèp: 
which in ancient language means “‘killers of men thai ap 
in pity for the smaller people, went through all the earth, 
every giant, and converted them all into large stones; Pi 
of late, when the Flatheads in crossing the mountain? 
basaltic stone standing upright, they said to one anol’ 
aside, there is a. Nùtliskèliguten killed by Sinchi Ps |, 
large piece of silex they saw, was for them a fragment a ton 
of the “killers of men.” As it oftentimes happen’ ip ue 
‘more of these prairie-wolves come at night to howl us oe 
aze, there are still many, particularly the old women, ` 
