No. IX. 
INQUIRIES. 
The following list of inquiries which I usually made in the diff'erent 
countries which I visited, may probably assist other travellers and 
missionaries. 
1. What conceptions have the people of this country of a 
supreme being ? 
2 Have they any knowledge of the soul of man ? 
o Have they any notions respecting a future state ? 
4 Have they any knowledge of creation, or how the things 
which they see came into being ? 
5 Have they any notion of a providence, or the government 
of an invisible agent, or being ? 
6 What opinions do they entertain respecting the heavenly 
bodies? 
7 What opinions have they respecting the extent of the world ? 
8 Have they any knowledge of other countries ? 
9 Is there any thing peculiar in the dispositions of their 
children ? 
10 How do they treat their children? 
1 1 What are the amusements of their children ? 
12 What are the employments of their youth? 
13 Do parents give any instruction to their children : 
14 Are they severe in punishing their children ? 
1 5 Do any arts exist among them ? 
16 Do they marry, and what is the form? 
17 What diseases are they subject to? 
18 Are any medicines used by them ? 
19 Are any operations on the body performed by them ? 
20 What is done for healing a broken limb? 
21 How do they treat their sick ? 
22 How do they appear aifected at the approach of death r 
23 How are they affected by the death of friends ? 
24 What are the ceremonies of their funerals ? 
25 Have they any forms, or religious rites among them ? 
