150 JOURNEY TO THE SHORES 



afterwards stripped and joined in the cere- 

 mony. 



I did not learn that the Indians worship 

 any other god by a specific name. They 

 often refer, however, to the Keetchee- 

 Maneeto, or Great Master of Life ; and to 

 an evil spirit, or Maatche-Maneeto. They 

 also speak of Weettako, a kind of vampyre 

 or devil, into which those who have fed on 

 human flesh are transformed. 



Whilst at Carlton, I took an opportunity 

 of asking a communicative old Indian, of 

 the Blackfoot nation, his opinion of a future 

 state ; he replied, that they had heard from 

 their fathers, that the souls of the departed 

 have to scramble with great labour up the 

 sides of a steep mountain, upon attaining 

 the summit of which they are rewarded 

 with the prospect of an extensive plain, 

 abounding in all sorts of game, and inter- 

 spersed here and there with new tents, 

 pitched in agreeable situations. Whilst 

 they are absorbed in the contemplation of 

 this delightful scene, they are descried by 



