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defeat, and when they came back and told 
the old man what had happened, he flew 
into a rage, and said to his men, a me no 
care if you no go kill my enemies for be 
slaves for my son, then let my enemies kill 
you and you go be slaves for my son*" The 
main object was to get persons to serve his 
son in eternity : and he would a little rather 
have his enemies killed for that purpose, but 
if that could not be done, then he was will- 
ing his own people should be sacrificed for 
that object. 
Some suppose that those who die return 
into the world again in a state of infancy. 
In that case the Greegree man is called, 
upon the birth of a child, to say who has 
returned to be an inhabitant of earth again ; 
and when this matter is settled the child is 
named after that person. They all seem to 
think that the spirits of the deceased linger 
for some time near the spot where the body 
was when the spirit left it, and some have a 
great dread to enter the house where a per- 
son has recently died. 
Some also think that the soul, like the 
^ody, requires food until it undergoes some 
