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Jimmy Johnsonproceeds exhorting the indians to be moral. He observes the ((Gassyodigo?)) Used to say that playing and dancing after the fiddle and playing cards was very wrong. The indians he says must not use nor even touch them nor must they adopt any of the gambling practices invented by the whites. The indians themselves have danced & they can practice them innocently. The ((angels?)) Told the Prophet to tell the indians that it was very to sell any of the lands that the Great Spirit had made & given to the indians for their occupancy. The Great Spirit, he says, did not make it for to be the property of the old people but for the ((possession?)) of the children Indians who persist in selling lands must expect to meet a great punishment after death. The Prophet used to tell us that none of his expeditions into the upper regions he chanced to meet his friend, ((Ho,neh,ya,was?)) Otherwise called ((Farmers?))