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inoon* , maybe termed fa. So far from idolatry 
are they, that they.have no images amongft 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 
moft profound and refpedbful homage. They be- 
lieve in a future (late, where the fpirit exifts, 
which they call the world of fpirits, where they 
enjoy different degrees of tranquillity or comfort, 
agreeably to their life Ipent here : a perfon who 
in his life has been an induflrious hunter, provid- 
ed 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, pledant country, where are expanfive, 
green, flowery favannas and high forefcs, watered 
with rivers of pure waters, replenifhed with deer, 
and every fpecies of game; a ferene, unclouded 
and peaceful iky ; in fliort, where there is fulnefs 
of pleafure, uninterrupted. 
They have many accounts of trances and vifions 
of their people, who have been l'uppofed to be 
dead, but afterwards reviving, have related their 
vifions, which tend to enforce the practice of vir- 
tue and the moral duties. 
Before I went amongft the Indians, I had of- 
ten heard it reported, that thefe people, when their 
parents, through extreme old age, become de- 
crepid and helplefs, in companion for their mi- 
feries, fend them to the other world, by a {broke 
of the tomahawk or bullet. Such a degree of 
depravity and fpecies of impiety always appeared 
* I have obferved the young fellows very merry and jccofe, at the appear- 
ance of the new moon, faying, how afhamed the looks under the veil, lincc 
llecpirg with the fun thebe two cr three nights, lire is alhamed to thaw her 
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