(43) out as quick as he could. Very shortly after they heard the same cries of pain, faintly, at first, but the voice soon entered. The _Conjuror_ said he was carried to where the people were "They are all aslepp, at such a place & tomorrow will be here" &c. He said there were 4 (spirits) of them, that carried him off: Each held him by the _little finger_ & _little toe_! I shall here relate a couple more of these stories. And indian told me that several years back he left his lodge on the borders of a large Lake to go to the house for some necessaries he wanted. He took a traverse for some islands,--the weather was dull but mild: a storm very soon set in-- but he persevered: thinking the wind had changed, he also changed his course. He became very much fatigued & laid down on the ice to rest himself & wait for day light, for _the_ night had overtaken him. He was not long down before reflecting on his situation he became extremely uneasy & was afraid of freezing. At last he heard a curious noise near him that he could not account for: at first his fears increased greatly dreading it was some malignant spirit; but having no alternative he resigned himself to his fate "& I became "as composed as tho' I were safe; & I was too: for an animal much resembling a Wolf "& black, came up & covered me; I was very cold, shivering in every limb, but I soon "became quite warm: he rose from off me & went on as if inviting me to follow--his "eyes appeared like 2 candles.--I followed--he led me to an island where I made a fire "& warmed & dried myself; & as soon as I was rigged I followed him, for he went off & looked at "me so earnestly I took it for an order: he led me straight to the water hole:-- "there happened to be people at the time there going for water--They saw _these_ lights "& asked me what occasioned them, or who it was that came with me,--I told "them it was a compassionate spirit that retrieved me from a dreadful death."-- --_2nd_! A young man lately told me the following "I was returning home with my "uncle when come to _that_ point we heard something crying behind us he! he! ha! ha! "& whistling alternatively. My uncle told me it was a Pah-Kack (Skeleton) & wanted to "destroy us. It came up with us very soon & kept constantly buzzing & whistling in our "ears so that indeed we were quite bewildered at last: it was at night & dark, but "we kept strait on as we thought; we were mistaken, for after "walking a long time, we at last came to the water hole again from where we had "set off. We were both of much afraid; but finding this path we minded it no "more tho' it pursued us making more & more noise the nearer we got _home_." Many of these stories bear a great resemblance to those extravagant tales of la Béte a la Grande Queue, Loup Garoup, Chasse Galerie & many others natural to superstitious people, it requires therefore a great deal of caution & attention to get at the true ones.