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human victim, who was a slave, on the death 

 of his son. In some provinces of America, 

 historians have mentioned that, upon the 

 death of a Chief, a certain number of his 

 wives, and of his slaves who had been taken in 

 war, were put to death, and interred together 

 with him, that he might appear with the same 

 dignity in the world of spirits, and be waited 

 upon by the same attendants. Some have 

 solicited the honour to die, while others have 

 fled, as marked for victims, under this cruel 

 and superstitious practice. 



April 4. — On my arrival at the Church 

 Mission House for divine w T orship, a poor In- 

 dian widow with five children, asked me to 

 admit two of the boys into the schools, which I 

 immediately did, and particularly wished her to 

 leave the two girls also, one about six, and the 

 other eight years of age ; but she would not com- 

 ply with my request. The boys were very wild 

 and troublesome, and often ran away from the 

 school to their mother, who was generally living 

 about the Settlement. They were getting at 

 length however better reconciled, and had 

 begun to be attached to the schoolmaster, when 

 I was informed the Catholics were prejudicing 

 her mind against the school ; and that some of 

 the women of that persuasion had told her, that 



