twine that tied his fingers, not quite 5 minutes elapsed, & not 1 1/2 minutes before his blanket & the cords were thrown out to us!--Not one of them, apparently (i.e. one knot) _untied_!--My astonishment & apprehen- sions of his being entirely carried off from us were such, that I was nearly springing up to haul him out, for fear of his being for ever lost. The others continued singing a few other songs & I had the utmost anxiety in hearing repeated- ly call out as if in the greatest apprehensions himself "enough! enough! e- (58) Enough of ye I say"; & frequently for the space of some minutes repeating the same, & now & then calling out "do not _Thou_ enter." The _Stone_ was the first one known to us, by his song; for every one almost that entered sang _his_ song, to which those (the indians) on the outside would keep chorus. A vast number entered, I verily beleive upward of an hundred; for upwards of that number of times the frame shook back-&-forwards and very smartly as if to fall; & among the first were some truly terrible characters. I have almost entirely converted myself from these foolish ideas of Ghost & hobgoblins, but I assure you in truth that I more than once felt very uneasy. The Ice entered--he made a noise extremely resembling that made by a person shivering with cold, loud, & hoarse & _liquid_. The Devil _himself_ also entered in _propria persona_, in a very authoritative & commanding manner: I assure you there was no laughing nor gigling outside, all the time he sang & spoke. The Turtle spoke as an old Jocular man. "I hate the french; for in their travels "when they find me, they kill me & eat me:--I shall answer none of their questions" but this was a joke; for he laughed. "Speake out Turtle, speake out, louder that "we hear the", said those without "--I would too, replied he, but my voice is "so strong I must contract it thus otherwise ye could not endure the sound "of it." "Hop! continued he, I must imitate the drunk", which he did to the great diversion of us all & concluded with snoring, the natural end of all drunken feasts & then became quiet, on which another voice (which I also perfectly heard & understood as well the Turtle herself) cried out--"see! see! if she does not look like a frog stretched out" & this raised a proper laugh both in & out. The Dog entered, & spoke perfectly plain & distinct, & with a more elegant & harmonious voice I ever heard in my life. Bears of 3 or 4 different sorts, the horse, moose, Skeletons, spirits of departed & _still living friends_ entered; but none but the latter & above mentioned were to be understood by any but the conju- ror himself. On the entering of one "that is my (_adopted_) Son" said an Indian seated by me & called out his name to which he readily answered besides questions: this young man & a girl, both living, spoke very plain (you must observe that it is not their bodies, but their