the language, but it appears to me as to mean "he who made the Day or Skies, "or resides in the Sky" &c.--This one they represent wicked, & terrible; inexorable to the highest degree; always plotting evil, & endeavouring to circumvent the rest of the creation; is always jawing & bawling; but when the other appears he or- ders him in a peremptory manner "hold thy Tongue; Get the hence, thou "deceiver; thou ill-liver". But these words are uttered in such an authoratative & commanding tone that the Indians themselves are quite astonished, to see one who is so uncommonly kind & indulgent to them in every respect; so tender & affectionate, even in the choice of his words, assume so suddenly & with so much authority so much Power over one whose name alone they never utter but with the greatest Dread & horor. Their Horor of the Devil is so great, that no one ever utters it but when unavoidable; & if thro' inadvertancy or ignorance one of their children should mention it he is severely reprimanded by all who hear.-- There is also the Sea Serpent, a monstrous animal & has much Power; The Mer- (7) The Mermaid (or Sea-Man), The Water Lynx, or rather Tyger--a dreadful charac- ter this last, who keeps all the Inhabitants of the deep in the Greatest Subjection--there are however one or two who contend with him; & sometimes he is reduced to the necissity of compounding with them. The Great Turtle, and many others. They have their abodes in the Deep, but perfectly dry & comfortable. Each one of these, & indeed all of them have their Stories or Mythology; some I forget entirely, & others remember too incor- rectly to mention at present.--[These When any one Conjures, if he is a renouned _Medicine_ Man, _they_ all appear, & Speake to him, mostly in his own language, some few excepted as the _Pike_ (a Jack fish) who Speaks french; The Sun & Moon, both speak English; the Bull or Buffaloe in an unknown, or at least strange language; but all per- fectly intelligible to the Conjuror.--I am quite astray--leaving the proper thread of my story to follow one of its branches--I ought to have said that] The Sun when he appears to an indian, he is seen in the Heavens, as an Indian (i.e. a Man) "walk- ing on the Wind." His dress is of a variety of Colors & handsome. I had a dream, the latter part of which I shall relate to you as it is perfectly des- criptive of the manner or form in which the Sun appears. I related it the next day to some of my half-breeds, when one of them replied; "What a pity! had you now forborne for a few days mentioning _this_, he would have appeared again to you; & then you would have had a fine opportunity of learning (from the fountain-head, as we might say) how it is the indians come to perform those things the white will never credit:" & he continued that it was precisely the form he assumed when he appears to the indians. In my