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Said lie, “We come here lookum things, look all round; 
but come Sunday, lock up all that, and then Monday look 
again.” He spoke of an Indian of his acquaintance who 
had been with some ministers to Ktaadn, and had told 
him how they conducted. This he described in a low and 
solemn voice. “ They make a long prayer every morn¬ 
ing and night, and at every meal. Come Sunday,” said 
he, “ they stop ’em, no go at all that day, — keep still, — 
preach all day, — first one then another, just like church. 
O, ver good men.” “ One day,” said he, “ going along a 
river, they came to the body of a man in the water, 
drowned good while, all ready fall to pieces. They go 
right ashore, — stop there, go no farther that day, — they 
have meeting there, preach and pray just like Sunday. 
Then they get poles and lift up the body, and they go back 
and carry the body‘with them. O, they ver good men.” 
I judged from this account that their every camp was 
a camp-meeting, and they had mistaken their route, — 
they should have gone to Eastham ; that they wanted 
an opportunity to preach somewhere more than to see 
Ktaadn. I read of another similar party that seem to 
have spent their time there singing the songs of Zion. 
I was glad that I did not go to that mountain with such 
slow coaches. 
However, the Indian added, plying the paddle all the 
while, that if we would go along, he must go with us, 
he our man, and he suppose that if he no takum pay for 
what he do Sunday, then ther’s no harm, but if he 
takum pay, then wrong. I told him that he was stricter 
than white men. Nevertheless, I noticed that he did 
not forget to reckon in the Sundays at last. 
He appeared to be a very religious man, and said his 
prayers in a loud voice, in Indian, kneeling before the 
