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opportunity does not offer. they bury it.

They believe in an existence after the death of the body; but their ideas are not very spiritual on that subject; for they place food near the graves of dead friends, of which they invite them to partake; and also invite them to smoke; at the same time holding out a loaded pipe. - In face, they never eat a feast, without asking ghosts to come and partake.

They firmly believe in ghosts, and stand in great awe of them, and pray to them. They often imagine they see them. They believe the souls of mankind, previous to their sojourn in the human frame, existed elsewhere having passed through various transmigrations. And also, that mankind have done the same. Some think they were once buffaloes and bounded over the vast pains in search of grass; and that some were once bears, & ?; and others imagine they were once white men before they were indians. They think that the souls of men go to a place which they call the house of spirits; but that they return and haunt the place where their bones were laid. - They believe the spirits of the dead have power to do them great mischief; and therefore take much pains to propitiate them. They affirm that all animals have souls. If