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Death, burial etc. ________________ A father, becoming convinced that he is near his end, especially if aged, usually calls his children around him, tells them his situation, gives them advice and instruction respecting their future life, and repeats to them what he may know (important) of their ancient customs & traditions. A person being expected soon to die in a house the children are all sent away, & none suffered, generally, to remain but the adult relatives, and the conjurer. Male relatives, I believe, seldom weep at the death of a friend, but the females immediately commence a most doleful lamentation, expressing the relative name of the deceased, as, if a child, A que tsi, hi, hi, hi. This is sung rather than spoken, in a very mournful tone of voice. After mourning a longer or shorter time they proceeded to bury the corpse. This was done by a person appointed by the town to bury the dead. He was generally, if not always a conjurer, or priest. The most ancient custom was to bury the corpse in the house, directly under that spot in the floor where the person died, except in the case of a distinguished chief, & then he was buried under the seat he had usually occupied in the council house. But when persons were not buried in the house, the person appointed to bury the dead, took the corpse, and carried it himself to the place of