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18 Their Religion & Worship. They have all of them some sort of Religion. They offer the first fruits of everything to their God, before they eat of it. This they do, as to their corn, their fruits, their vines, their Deer, their Turkeys &c as they are in season. After they have made their offerings to their God, in ye next place, they make a present to their King. Their offerings are burnt without doors, on ye ground. They have generally no Altars struck through: of stone, or of any other sort They burn ye fat & head & neck & some other particular parts of the Deer. They make offerings also at ye full moon, and when they go to war, or undertake any great hunting &c. when they lay up in their Gods house, & after some time, burn this? But it is thought that ye old men doe herein cheat ye young &? do really make use of a great part of those offerings. In the morning, whatever they are to eat or drink, before they taste of it, they throw some of it, into ye fire, or on ye ground. They pray to their God, & praise him after their manner. Their priests sometimes pray for their sick (see page 13 concerning Diseases & cures). In their Gods house, they have not only ye Images of a man? for their God, but also the skins of Wolves, foxes, Ravens & other creatures stufft with straw, and glass or beads in the eye holes; These they worship as Gods, when they go to war, go? a Hunting, and they think thereby to have ye swiftness, cunning, strength, & all the other qualities, that they observe in those creatures communicated to them.

Their god does appear frequently to them, in the shape of a handsome young Indian, but their boyes do not know him, unclear they see him, till they be made men. vide page 16 They think we have one God, & they another, & that ours is better? & stronger than theirs, because wee are better provided for, with?