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TRAVELS IN 
moon% may be termed fo. So far from idolatry- 
are they, that they have no images amongll them, 
nor any religious rite or ceremony that I could 
perceive ; but adore the Great Spirit, the giver and 
taker away of the breath of life, with the mofl 
profound and refpectful homage. They believe in 
a future flate, where the fpirit exifts, which they 
call the world of fpirits, where they enjoy different 
degrees of tranquillity or comfort, agreeably to 
their life fpent here : a perfon who in his life has 
been an induftrious hunter, provided well for his 
family, an intrepid and active warrior, juft, upright, 
and done all the good he could, will, they fay, in 
the world of fpirits, live in a warm, pleafant coun- 
try, where are expanfive, green, flowery favannas 
and high forefts, watered with rivers of pure wa- 
ters, replenished with deer, and every fpecies of 
game ; a ferene, unclouded and peaceful Iky ; in 
fhort, where there is fulnefs of pleafure, uninter- 
rupted. 
They have many accounts of trances and vifions 
of their people, who have been fuppofed to be dead, 
but afterwards reviving, have related their vifions, 
which tend to enforce the practice of virtue and 
the moral duties. 
Before I went amongfl: the Indians, I had often 
heard it reported, that thefe people, when their 
parents, through extreme old age, become de~ 
crepid and helplefs, in companion for their miferies, 
fend them to the other world, by a ftroke of the 
tomahawk or bullet. Such a degree of depra- 
vity and fpecies of impiety always appeared 
* I have obferved thd young fellows very merry and jocofc, at the ap- 
pearance of the new moon, faying, how alhamed fne looks under theveil s 
fince fieepmg with the fun thefe two er fcfaree nights, file is aihamed to' 
{how her face, &c 
to 
