dream I thought we were travelling a road from which some of our Party had the utmost to dread from the ambush of an indian who could transport himself to what place he pleased. As we were walking I happened to look above & was much struck with the appearance of a man walking in the Heavens. His dress was that of a neat _Southern_ Indian, composed mostly of red & yellow, but also of a few other colors: The Garters of his leggings were also Neat & handsome & had a tuft of Swans-down that had been Powdered with vermillion, attached to the not, on the back part of the leg: To His shoes were attached 2 long Swan quills inclosing the foot thus [Transcriber's Note: Diagram of Sun's footwear] with a tuft of down at each end & in the middle on both sides, all Powdered with vermillion--with these quills & down, & the down on his Garters buoyed him up in the air. I addressed in broken Cree--he answered in the same broken accent; upon my second address I though he did not understand more of that language than I did myself: the Sauteux seemed to me his proper tongue & I was glad of having an opportunity of speaking that language; so I the third time addressed him in it asked him from whence he came, whither he was going &c. &c.--He was very hi (8) hi, insomuch that the others thought it preprosterous in my addressing him--that he could not hear from that distance. Upon this he came down & talked with us--Saying he was an _ambas- sador_ &c. Such is the habillement, & manner in which the Sun shews himself.--The Thun- der also appears to them, in the Shape & form of a Most beautiful bird (The Pea-Cock).-- Roots & herbs also (this also ought to have come in afterwards) i.e. such as are medeci- nal, appear, & teach their votaries their respective Songs--how they must do, what ceremonies they must perform in taking them out of the Ground, their different applications &c. &c. But these roots, herbs, &c. (medecins) tho' they appear in their Dreams, they do not shew themselves in the Conjuring Hut, box, or frame, that I learn. They are sent, as appears, by Wee- suck-a-jaak, "to teach indians their use & virtue." &c., without which "they would be very ill off, whether to heal or cure themselves, or expell the charms by which other indians may have bewitched them" &c. And tho' they are acquainted with many of these roots &c. the use & virtue of some of which I can no more doubt than those used by the Faculty in the Civilized world, yet they tell me there are several which they use to differ- ent, & some to diametrically opposite purposes. Their manner of Conjuring is this--in the first place a number straights poles of 2, or 2 1/2 ins. diameter & about 8 or 9 feet long are prepared, i.e. cut, branched & Pointed at the lower end--they seldom require so _few_ as four, commonly 6 or 8, these are planted in the Ground from 12 to 20 or 24 ins. deep in an hexagon or octagon form, enclosing a space of