Sons thus, tho' an excellent hunter: the old man sometimes speakes to me of that son: and the second died on his way to the house, & not far off. The same year an indian killed all his family but 2 daughters whom he compelled to partake with him, & for the rest of the route he ........--I shall here give you a few stories of the kind. "_That_ same "year (I do not know precisely when but only a few years back) a woman alone arrived at the "house. Her appearance was haggard, wild, & distressed: However she was taken into _the_ house-- "questions put as usual, but the answers, vague, indefinite & contradictory: they "handed her something to eat--she acted as if eating it indeed, but let the whole fall in "the _inside_ of her gown: this rose suspicion. But what added to this was the extra- "ordinary stench she emitted from the heat of the chimney; & shortly after her entrance, a "part of a human shoulder the Dogs bro't in from upon her road. She went off--being "directed upon a road leading to a camp not far off. As soon as she made her appearance the indians "immediately conceived what was to matter; but thro' charity as well as for safety & to find the "truth they gave her to eat, principally marrow-fat." Now these people pretend that cannibals cannot bear this fat or grease, of course it was a kind of _ordeal_. "Every thing she did & said, notwithstand- "ing her great caution, betrayed her. She took up some of the children of her acquaintances to kiss (47) "kiss as is customary but would have given it a bite had they not taken it from her. They wat- "ched her narrowly. All the men slept in one tent with her: she pretended to be asleep 'till "she imagined the others were, then rose very cautiously & was beginning to prepare herself for _action_ "--One of the men perceived this--rose upon her with an axe; tho' the blow was violent & "upon the head she would have killed him had not the others interfered: her wretched fate "was soon decided." There is such a singular, strange, incomprehensible contradictoriness in almost all these cases, & many I have heard, that I do most verily believe they are _denun_- ciations, witch, or wizardisms: in any other manner they are not rationally to be account- ed for, unless we suppose all those who feed on human flesh to be thus possest,--then it is natural to man in those cases; but why then not the same with us as with these people? --The 3d Kind, or delegated, which by what follows, I believe may be allowed to be the term, are those who dream of the North, or the Ice, or both. Every one knows where the North resides, but only few know the abode of Ice, or the Ice. This they pretend is the Parent of Ice, is in the bowels of the Earth, at a great depth & never thaws--all ice originates from this. These 2 they are much afraid of, because they are both highly malignant spi- rits: there is no joking or jesting with them. Those who at _any_ future period are to become