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Go rid me of this dog, fay they, and they are in- 

 flantly obeyed. Their fubjecls, and even the chiefs . 

 of their villages, never come into their prefence 

 without faiutmg them thrice, and raifmg a cry, 

 or rather a fort of howling. They do the 

 fame thing when they withdraw, and always retire 

 going, backwards. "When they meet them they 

 x are obliged to flop, range themfelves in order on 

 the road, and howl in the manner above mentioned 

 till they are pad. They are like ways obliged to 

 carry them the bed of their harveft-, and of the 

 product of their hunting and fifhing. In fine, no 

 one, not even their nearer! relations, and thofe 

 who compofe their nobility, when they have the 

 honour to eat with them, have a right to drink otic 

 of the fame cup, or put their hands in the fame 

 dim. 



Every morning, as foon as the fun appears, the 

 grand chief (lands at the door of his cabbin, turns 

 his face towards the eafl, and howls thrice, pro- 

 llrating himfelf to the ground at the fame time. A 

 calumet is afterwards brought him, which is ne- 

 ver ufed but upon this occafion ; he fmoaks, and 

 blows the tobacco firft towards the fun, and then 

 towards the other three quarters of the world. He 

 acknowledges no mailer but the fun, from whom 

 he pretends he derives his origin. He exercifes 

 an abfolute power over his fubjects, whofe lives 

 and goods are entirely at his difpofal, and they 

 can demand no payment for any labour he requires 

 of them. 



When the grand chief, or the woman chief, die, 

 all the Aliouez are obliged to follow them to the 

 other world, nor are they the only perfons who 

 have this honour : for it is certainly reckoned one, 



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