learn between 17 & 20 years old--they must have had no intercourse with the other Sex--they must be chaste & unpolluted. In the spring of the year they chuse a proper place at a sufficient distance from the camp not be discovered nor disturbed. They make themselves a bed of Grass, or hay as we term it, & have besides enough to make them a covering. When all this is done--& they do it entirely alone, they strip stark naked & put all their things _a good way off_ & then return, ly on this bed & then cover themselves with the rest of the Grass. Here they remain & endeavour to _sleep_, which from their nature is no very difficult task. But, du- ring whatever time they may remain, they must neither eat nor drink. If they want to Dream of the Spirits above, their bed must be made at some distance from the Ground --if of Spirits inhabiting our Earth, or those residing in the waters, on the Ground. (5) on the Ground. Here they ly for a longer or shorter time, according to their success, or the orders of the Dreamed. Some remain but 3 or 4 days, some 10, & I have be told one re- mained 30 days without eating or drinking; such was the delight he received from his Dreams!--When I laughed at this, the man was vexed, & the others not a little hurt. --The first thing they do after their return to their freinds is to take a good drink of water, smoke the Pipe: & after that eat, but as composedly as if they had but just risen from a hearty meal. Their _Dreamed_ sometimes order them to make a Feast; & not uncommonly tell them where to go, where they will find the animal whose flesh is to be served up (i.e. always boiled) &c. They sometimes lie in one Posture, & sometimes in another, i.e. their head to some one of the Cardinal Points. Some have the most pleasant dreams imaginable; others indifferent. When they are to live to a good old age(!!!) they are told..."You will see many winters! your head will grow "quite white"; or "tho you shall never see your head white, yet you shall live "till you are obliged to make use of a stick, & long after"--"You shall die old, "very old, respected & regretted."--If they are to die young... "Thou shalt see the years of a "young man"; & so on of the other ages, as well as the manner of life they shall have; & the language is not very dissimilar to that of our version of the Bible. But that stile seems to me to be the language of Nature which _I_ always find the more charming the more re- tired the _speaker_ is from the Pompous, bombastic walks of _high_ life, which tho' they furnish us with more ideas, _I_ do not think adds so much to the beauty of the language. As I have said before, the purpose of these Dreams is to dive into futurity. Every thing in nature appears unto them, but in the Shape of a human-being--They dream they meet a man who asks them (after some preliminary conversation of course) "Dost