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winter, when this animal is very fat, the greafe 
that fwims on the broth becomes a perfect oil, 
which the Indians frequently drink until! 
they burft As soon as the bear is 
killed, the hunter places the fmall end of 
his pipe in its mouth, and by blowing in 
the bowls, fills the mouth and throat full of 
fmoak, then he conjures the departed Spirit 
not to refent the injury done his body, nor to 
thwart his future fport in hunting, but as he 
receives no anfwer to this, in order to know 
if his prayers have prevailed, he cuts the liga- 
ment under the bear’s tongue, if thefe ligaments 
contract and fhrivel up, being caft into the 
fire, which is done with great folemnity and 
abundance of invocations : then it is efteemed a 
certain mark (as it rarely fails) that the manes 
are appeafed. It was now time to return to 
our fire where we laid us down to reft. 
The 13//&, in the morning, the Indians re- 
paid our vifit, and entertained us with a fa- 
miliar converfation for half an hour at the fire. 
We then fet out up the creek, where I obferved 
three noble white pine trees, with many large 
green cones hanging on the top and fide branches 
over the creek, which was three rods broad and 
pretty deep, had thefe been ripe I know not 
how we fhould have got at them, as they 
were at the extremity of large branches, that 
hung over the Water, on which part of the 
branch they generally grow. Soon after we 
E came 
