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They believe there is an invisible 
spirit that rules and governs all events, 
and that he is the cause of all their sick¬ 
ness and distress ;—consequently they 
consider him to be a very bad being.— 
But they have no belief in a good spirit, 
nor have they any modes of worship.— 
It is a prevalent opinion among them, 
when any are sick, that the bad spirit 
rests upon them ; and they believe that 
particular manoeuvres and a form of 
words, performed round and said over 
the sick, will induce % finite the bad spirit^, 
to cease from afflicting, and leave the 
unfortunate sufferers. With regard to a 
future state of existence, they believe that 
the shadow, or what survives the body, 
is, after death, entirely happy ; that it 
roves about at pleasure, and takes much 
delight in beholding everything that is 
transacted in this world ;—and as they 
consider the world as an extensive plain, 
they suppose the disembodied spirits 
travel quite to the edge of the skies, 
where they think white people lire, and 
then back again to their native Isles; 
