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ture, such as large lakes, rivers and mountains? 

 and spacious caverns, &c. and likewise over the 

 beasts, birds, fishes, vegetables, and stones, that 

 exceed the rest of their species in size, or in 

 any other remarkable quality. On this account, 

 they pay to all these objects, some kind of 

 adoration. 



They, also, believe in a future state of ex- 

 istence. Those who, while in the present world, 

 have, according to their ideas of right and wrong, 

 led a good life, will, at death, immediately enter 

 on another and a better state of existence, where 

 they will meet their departed relatives and friends, 

 who will welcome them in the most affection- 

 ate manner, to their happy abode. In the fu- 

 ture world, they believe that they shall pos- 

 sess bodies more beautiful and healthy and vig- 

 orous, than those which they animated on earth ; 

 and that they shall be much more happy, than 

 they were in the present life, since the country 

 in which they will reside, abounds with all kinds 

 of game, which they will be able to take, with 

 little or no trouble, and supplies every gratifi- 

 cation, in which they now f delight, in perfection 

 and without end. 



But those who lead wicked lives on earth, 

 they suppose will, at death, be conveyed into 

 the middle of an extensive swamp or marsh. 



