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first Beings are now existing on high, as the vice-gerents? of the Great Supreme, and the mediators between him and their posterity of whom the RedMan (the sun) was the first created. To these four beings, in power now given over the world, as agents of the Great Being of all. To each one of them out first supplications are to be addressed in regular succession. Whatever is addressed to the BlackMan, the Fearless, will forthwith be attended to; and for all that relates to goodness, the WhiteMan is to be invoked; but over all of them the Creator reigns supreme, enthroned above in the center of these four points. His eye at once beholds them and us. He knows every thing which each and all in this world can do or think; and he best knows what may for each be best. To him, after first invoking the man of the east, (the sun), and the man of the north, and the man of the west, and the man of the south, - to him, - the greatest and the head of all, must be offered up our final and most fervent of our prayers. a The beginning of one of these prayers was with much difficulty drawn by the writer of these pages from one of the most aged and intelligent