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unfuccefsful, and then they are faid to make no dif- 

 ficulty of eating one another. The mod daftardly 

 are the firfl: facrifices •, it is further pretended, that 

 when a man arrives at fuch an age that he can only 

 be a burthen and expence to his family, he himfelf 

 paries a cord round his own neck, the extremities 

 pf which- he prefents to the child who is deafen: to 

 him, who ftrangles him as expeditioufly as he can, 

 believing that in fo doing, he performs a good ac- 

 tion, not only by putting an end to the fufFerings 

 pf his father, but likewife by advancing his happi- 

 nefs for thefe Indians imagine, that a man who 

 dies old is born again in the other world at the age 

 of a child at the breaft *, and that, on the contrary, 

 thofe who finifh their courfe foon, become old when 

 they arrive at the country of fouls. 



The young women among thefe people never 

 marry but with the advice of their parents, and the 

 fon-in law is obliged to flay with his father-in-law, 

 and be fublervient to him in every thing, till he has 

 children himfelf. The young men leave their fa- 

 ther's houfes very early. Thefe Indians burn their 

 dead bodies, and wrap the afhes in the bark of a 

 tree, which they lay into the ground. Afterwards 

 they erect upon the grave a fort of monument with 

 pods, to which they fix tobacco, in order that the 

 deceafcd may have materials for fmoaking in the 

 other world. If he was a hunter, his bow and ar- 

 rows are fufpended there likewife. The mothers 

 lament their children for twenty days, and prefents 

 are made to the fathers, who make an acknowledg- 

 ment for them by a feaft. War is held in lefs efti- 

 mation amongft' them than hunting ; but before 

 any perfon can be efteemed a good hunter, he muft 

 fa ft for three days running, without tafting any 

 thing whatever, and all that time he muft have his 



