When any one of them is particularly affected with diseases out of the common course of nature _here_, or though the disease may be precisely the same as all others, yet, from certain circumstances individually, or a combination of them, they say he is Oh-gee-nay in Cree, or On-gee-nay in Sauteux (the On pronounced as in French and _not_ English), by which it would seem as if they meant he was afflicted or chastised for his own sins, or those of some of his or her near relatives: father, mother, if children; if grown up and married persons, for their own. Whether they only imagine this, or are informed of it by conjuring, _private_ {52} information from their _familiars_, or from the symptoms of the sick person, I cannot say, but the thus afflicted person must confess his sins publicly. Now in these confessions, as in all their other discourses or conversations (_initiating_ and _giving of medicines excepted_), they use no circumlocution, no secret or enigmatical word or term, to screen themselves. But all is delivered in plain terms and before everyone that chuses to hear. These confessions are terrible things. And they seem far more sincere and complete than those of many Catholics. They have wonderful, retentive memories, and no scene, no crime from their earliest years unto that day do they hide. But Great God! What abominations! One would scarcely imagine the human mind capable of inventing such infamously diabolical actions as _some_ do commit: murder, incest, and other things, if possible an hundredfold more, debasing the human soul. Whether they repent of these things, neither can I say, but it would appear as if they were the acts of a contrite and most humbly penitant soul. I have never had an opportunity of hearing these from _their own_ mouths, but _other_ Indians have told me of them. And though before their families _sometimes_, [they] have never omitted one single circumstance, from the suggestions of the idea, down to the very last _conclusion_. When I heard of these things at first, I _would not_ believe them. But hearing them come so circumstantially, _I trembled for the Land I sojourned in_ _lest it should vomit me out as the land of Canaan did its inhabitants_, _or be swallowed up in its destruction as Sodom and Gomorrah_!