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cause, the blame is often attached to some 

 individual of another tribe, who is presumed to 

 have been influenced by an evil spirit to kill 

 him, and wars are said to be not unfrequently 

 the result of this suspicion. 



They have some notion of another world, in 

 which they will be always drunk or galloping, 

 and they believe that the stars are their de- 

 ceased ancestry hunting in the heavens. I 

 may venture to repeat, from Captain Head's 

 authority, two other customs which betoken 

 the simplicity of this singular people. The 

 first is, that when they bury their dead, they 

 kill some of their best horses, that their de- 

 parted friends may have them to ride in ano- 

 ther world. The second is, that when they 

 marry, the bride and bridegroom lie down with 

 their heads to the west, and when the sun 

 rises at their feet the ceremony is complete. 



