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moon*, may be termed fo. So far from idolatry 
are they, that they have no images amongd them, 
nor any religious rite or ceremony that I could per- 
ceive but adore the Great Spirit, the giver and 
taker away of the breath of life, with the mod pro- 
found and refpebtful homage. They believe in a 
future date, where the fpirit exids, which they call 
the world of fpirits, where they enjoy different de- 
grees of tranquillity or comfort, agreeably to their 
life fpent here : a perfon who in his life has been an 
indudrious hunter, provided well for his family, an 
intrepid and acdive warrior, jud, upright, and done 
all the good lie could, will, they fay, in the world of 
fpirits, live in a warm, pleafant country, where are 
expanlive, green, flowery favannas and high roreds, 
watered with rivers of pure waters, replenished with 
deer, and every Species of game ; a ferene, unclouded 
and peaceful Iky ; in fhort, where there is fulnefs of 
pleafure uninterrupted. 
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 v/ent amongd 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 compaffion for their mi- 
feries, fend them to the other world, by a droke 
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 jocofe, at the ap- 
pearance of the new moon, faying, how afhamed fhe looks under the veil, 
Ihice deeping with the fun thefe two or three nights, the is afhamed to 
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