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"The Conewauches? say, that angels in old time frequently visited the people, instructed them how to pray, & to appease the Great Spirit when he was offended. They were to often sacrifice, burn tobacco, & buffalo & deer's bones." H.ab.st 243 Ex. ch 30. v. 7.8. "And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he ? the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it.// And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at eve, he shall burn incense before the Lord throughout your generation." -

"One of the ancient traditions of the Cherokee is, that once a whale swallowed a little boy, & after some time spourd? him out upon the land. p244 H. AB. Jonah ch 1. v.17. ch2 - v.1.10. - 626 l. cht. - "Now the Lord had prepared a great? fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish 3 days & 3 nights. Then Jonah prayed? unto the Lord his God out of the fish's belly. And the Lord spoke unto the fish, & it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land." -

"Some of the Indian nations stoned to death for adultery." ? Leviticus ch 20 v.10. And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall ? be put to death"