the tenets of their religion I _am told_ that when laying under any malediction, be- wichisms, &c. or conceive themselves so, they make a vow that the first animal the shall kill they will do _So_--they do not fail, but immediately proceed in quest of another which by this diabolical action they think they will soon find & kill. They do not _touch_ the animal afterwards as (54) as those Beasts among the Crees & Sauteux do, but leave it lay as a sacrifice: they consider it as a duty imposed upon them; but the others do it from mere beastiality. "Such a one did so, bro't home "part of the meat, & we all of us eat it--O! the Dog!" said an indian not long ago to me. Lest I may not soon have another opportunity of writing on these Subjects to _you_ I shall add a few more _fragments_. An indian here, passing for a great Doctor was applied to (& is still) by many to attend upon them. "Several of these he retrieved from death: One "of his dreamed, I beleive the North, was not pleased & told the Doctor 'never to administer "'his medecines to those he had doomed to death.' The Dr replied it was hard & unchari- "table seeing he could prolong their days a little. ' Well! for every one that thou dost "'deprive me of, I shall take one of thy children'; & the Dr lost 8 or 9. (I cannot "now remember well); but he is now grown more cautious". But this Dr is himself a beast. "Being unable to stand from sickness he told 2 of his wives 'Take ye me one "'under each arm to my sweat-heart.--I feel myself dying & dont chuse _thus_ to "'go': & he actually did. Remember, _I am told this_; but I have reasons to beleive it. --He is an incestuous beast: otherwise I find him a good indian & what is most strange, sensible beyond many of his equals.-- I have got a caracature here of the Devil carrying off a Taylor. I asked one of my indians if any of their familiars resembled him & how they were,--the reply was "Yes, "he resides in the North (at the Pole I suppose) & has a vast number of young men: The "indians report of some finding their tracks that are very numerous & exactly resemble the "tracks of the Grey Deer (carriboeuf); but neither him nor his young men are very wick- "ed: North, Ice, Skeleton, & Folly are the most wicked & ill inclined of all those we dream of, or enter the conjuring box"!-- Of their Feasts, I cannot say more than any common observer--I have been in- vited, & partaken of many of them, but I never thought of enquiring into their origin, the causes &c. of them. But from the little I could learn or rather understand from the speeches made at _all_ of them, & what I have learnt in regard to other things, I think may say without dreading contradiction, that as there are songs, ceremonies &c. appropriate to every one of their Gods or Familiars or Devils, there also _feasts_ made for each according to the whim, dream, or some other circumstance of the one who makes them.