Several of these he retrieved from death. One of his dreamed I believe the North, was not pleased and told the doctor never to administer his medicines to those he had doomed to death. The doctor replied it was hard and uncharitable 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." And the doctor lost eight or nine (I cannot now remember well). But he is now grown more cautious. But this Doctor is himself a beast. Being unable to stand from sickness, he told two of his wives "Take ye me one under each arm to my [sweet-heart]. I feel myself dying and don't chuse _thus_ to go." And he actually did. Remember _I am told this_, but I have reasons to believe it. He is an incestuous beast. Otherwise, I find him a good Indian and, what is most strange, sensible beyond many of his equals. [The Devil and the Tailor Caricature] I have got a caracature here of the Devil carrying off a tailor. I asked one of my Indians if any of their familiars resembled him and how they were. The reply was: Yes, he resides in the North (at the Pole I suppose) and has a vast number of young men. The Indians report of some finding their tracks that are very numerous and exactly resemble the tracks of the grey deer (carriboeuf). But neither [he] nor his young men are very wicked. North, Ice, Skeleton and Folly are the most wicked and ill inclined of all those we dream of or enter the conjuring box! [Feasts] Of their feasts I cannot say more than any common observer. I have been invited and partaken of many of them, but I never thought of enquiring into their origin [and] the causes of them. But from the little I could learn, or rather understand from the speeches made at _all_ of them, and what I have learnt in regard to other things, I think [I] may say, without dreading contradiction, that as there are songs [and] ceremonies appropriate to every one of their gods or familiars or devils, there [are] also _feasts_ made for each according to the whim, dream or some other circumstance of the one who makes them. We denominate these 'feasts', and from their own term it would seem they so mean. But I consider this again as a premature interpretation which I have not leisure to explain. I consider them rather as _sacrifices_. Indeed they may perhaps rather be esteemed as partaking of both. I have somewhere above said that they are _obliged_ to make an annual sacrifice to some of their gods as the non-performance passes not off with impunity. These therefore are obligatory or compulsory sacrifices. But besides these they also have free-will sacrifices.