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man named Sam, the captain or headman of the Indians 
who were with me, only to be told the bewildering 
words, ■ George speak me very bad, boss ; you cut his 
bitts.' It was some time before I could collect my 
senses sufficiently to remember that " bitts," or four- 
penny pieces, are the units in which in that part of the 
world calculation of wages is made ; that 'to cut bitts' 
means to reduce the number of bitts, or wages given; 
and to understand that Captain Sam, having dreamed 
that his subordinate, George, who, by the way, was not 
present, had spoken insolently to him, the former, with 
a fine sense of the dignity of his office, now insisted that 
the culprit should be punished in real life." Moreover, 
not only in death and in sleep does the Redman thus see 
evidence of his duality, of body and spirit. The visions 
which occur to him in his waking hours with a common- 
ness and vividness which in our stage of civilization we 
can hardly realize, afford further and similar evidence. 
Before leaving this part of the subject, one amusing 
instance of the Redman's recognition of body and spirit 
in all, even the most unlikely, things may be added. 
About a year ago, in a part of the country where a white 
man had never before been seen, after I had lately been 
sketching, and sometimes drawing faces, animals and so 
on, for the amusement of the Redmen, the spectators 
urgently requested me to leave my pencil with them 
that it might go on making pictures for them after I had 
left. 
Turning now to our second point, it is of course obvi- 
ous that differences of body must at once be recognized 
even by the most primitive man. But a great peculiar- 
ity distinguishes early thought about this matter from 
