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Flambeau. and others the grave yard if we may so speak is on a summit in the village. The spirit can better get out and away from a summit than it could from low land. In the coffin is put food. a cup and a platter. with the [?] and [?]. After the burial is accomplished the relatives have a feast at the grave as the last they will eat with the departed in this world. (In this watching with the dead we have an analogy. to the "wake" of the Celts.). for three days at dawn and at sunset after the [?] a fire is lighted. to [?] the spirit in the stages it has to walk to the happy hunting ground. with in this case the spirit walks. while with the Dakota where ponies abound. it is permitted to ride.

 At Lac du Flambeau in Wisconsin [?near?] the "Manito" is a grave that has standing near it a stick of wood hewn square and surmounted by a rude globe cut with the face of a man. upon it this stick struck us as being very peculiar.  It is the only one of the kind we ever saw in the indian country. but strangely as it may seem sticks of exactly that form are used constantly to mark the  graves of the Egyptians of then and former days a drawing of such a post is found on page 485. of "Modern Egyptians" by Edward Williams Lane."  1890.   Mr. W. W. [?Morris?] gives a graphic account of the post mortem condition of the indian and we are obliged to take issue with him as to the statement that they are buried in a "sitting posture." with as we have explained to face to the west.  We never saw a single case to Justify either of these [?] and how they could have been made we do not know.  certainly not from observation.
  In conclusion we would say summing up the evidence at hand we are of the opinion that the Dakota may be of Jewish stock. and from recent [?-ments?] is seems to be [?] that the Phoeniceans did colonize parts of America and bring with them Jewish captives and slaves. is easy to imagine in the absence of positive proof that they are the ancestors of the Dakota.  The Ojibway on the other hand we think are of possible Egyptian and Sythian origin coming through the ancient Picts, Scots and Celts.   In to this subject we