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and receive prefents again from them. They ever$ 

 make ufe of thefe opportunities to treat of their 

 common affairs, as the election of a chief: all 

 paffes with a great deal of order, decency and mo- 

 defty ; and every perfon prefent appears filled with 

 fentiments proper to the occafion j every thing, 

 even the very dances and fongs, breath fuch a for- 

 rowful air, that the heart is penetrated with the 

 moil lively forrow, fo that the mod: indifferent 

 perfon mtfft be ftruck at the fight of this fpec- 

 tacle* 



After fome days have pad, they go in proceffioq 

 to a large council r room built on purpofe, where 

 they hang up againft the walls the bones and car- 

 cafles, in the fame condition in which they were 

 taken up, and they difplay the prefents deftined 

 for the dead. If amongft the reft there happen tq 

 be the remains of fome chief, his fucceffor gives a 

 grand repair, in his name, and fings his fong. In 

 fcveral places the dead bodies are carried from can-* 

 ton to canton, where they are always received with 

 great demonstrations of grief and tendernefs, and 

 every where prefents are made them : laftly, they 

 carry them to the place where they are to remain 

 for eternity. But I forgot to tell you, that all thefe 

 proceffions are to the found of inftruments, ac- 

 companied with the flneft voices, and that every 

 perfon obferves an exact: cadence in his motion. 



This lait and common place of buriaj, is a great 

 ditch lined with the fineft furs and with whatever 

 is moil precious. The prefents deftined for the 

 dead are placed apart, and in proportion as the pro- 

 ceffion arrives, each family places itfelf on a kind 

 of fcaffolds erected aroupd the ditch. The moment 

 f;he dead bodies are depofited ? the women begin 



their 



