Others again take it and put it in a japannd tobacco box and tie the lid or cover securely with a _woman's garter_ from whence, if not loosened by someone, it can never escape. Any other lashing is not anything near so completely effectual as this. Reflect and you will guess immediately the reasons they give. As I do not know Latin and you don't understand Indian, I must suppress this and many other things. Others again take a different method thus. But by-the-bye, this has but very little relation to the soul. I shall therefore refer it until afterwards and give you another story as received from a Canadian, an eye witness. He was passing the winter with the Indians, and one night the head man of the tent he lodged in gave a feast. He was in the habit of doing it and was himself apparently a good and peaceable man, but not to be trifled with by other Indians. Everything being prepared, the guests were just going to eat when the feast-man's mother dropped suddenly as if dead. Everyone was struck with consternation. They had recourse to their medicines, songs, rattlers as usual. At last he fell to sucking his mother in one of her temples. Suddenly they heard something _crack_. The Indian drew back, his mother arose perfectly recovered and all became well. However, that which occasioned the _crack_, the Indian took out of his mouth, wrapped carefully up and gave it to his wife to put in a tobacco box, which she did. It had all the appearance of a _bean_ (une fève). The wife wanted to tie the lid, but the husband said there was no necessity. They resumed their meal. But the old woman was not long in possession of her senses. She very soon relapsed, and as instantaneously as at the first. "Ho!" exclaimed the Indian, "The _Dog_ is off." They looked into the tobacco box but nothing was found. They continued conjuring three nights and the last [night] especially. The man told me he thought the devil {29} was amongst them from a certain kind of undescribable noise in the air round about their tent and the sudden flashings of light. This was powder (gun powder). They had carefully thrown out all the fire, thrown a great quantity of snow and water on the hearth, and then put fresh earth upon it. It was perfectly dark in the lodge, there being no other light than what is usually emitted from the heavens. Upon this hearth of fresh earth they would throw some powder and then retiring to the bottom of the tent would say, "Come! Let me see if I be a manito?" then singing. Off the powder would fly! They continued this way three nights, but all to no purpose. The old woman yet lived two years but never spoke. He said (the Indian) that this _bean_ "... was the soul or spirit of another Indian, then at a vast distance, which he darted at my mother to render her pitiful and miserable. But I shall make the dog suffer." However, after this, the Canadian enquired why he did not revenge himself and kill him.