(18) "to you (i.e. me) is a sign that he will certainly pass." I then asked him if he intend- ed telling the other indians of it. "I shall tell my Elder (brother), but not the others, for they "wont beleive me." He was very diffident: he wanted to communicate to me all he was told, but said he durst not lest he should injure himself, by exasperating the other (i.e _Sickness_) & being _enigmatically_ forbidden!--"He told me, continued the indian, "as a sign that two of our number should die this winter, one a small one (& _he_ is dead "naming to me a child that died about that time, tho' very distant then from him) "and the other a full grown person--whom he is I know not, _but one must die_! These Chaps seldom appear (in dreams) less than 4 times, but commonly 6 times, & each time in a different form 'till the last, when he _makes himself known_, & ever after appears (or rather appear) in the same uniform manner. It is then, after they have made themselves completely known to their votaries, that they communicate their power &c. &c. &c. and teach their their _songs_ which tho' in their dreams, are so indelibly imprinted in their memories that they are never forgotten. For every one of these Spirits, Genii, demons, phantasies, or whatever you may please to term them, have each their _Song_, which they communicate to their votaries, as well as explain also their power. Hence it is, that when any any one amongst them has dreamed of a certain number, commonly a good many, 20, 30, or perhaps a thousand, that they can _conjure_ when they please; for these like the guardian Genii in the fables, keeps always near them, & pro- tect them from _too_ much injury from the evil machinations of some of the mischievous ones. Indeed, from what I can learn, there are but few of these _familiars_ but do do evil to their votaries if they (the votary, i.e. the in- dian) neglect performing the regular annual, or perhaps more distant periodical sacrifice; and this sacrifice, their _familiar_ tells them what it is he expects. A few days ago, in the night between the 31st March & 1st April, this indian was sleeping in an old house I sent him to, when at a late hour in the night he was pulled most violently out of his bed; so that his wife that was lying beside him, awoke & with difficulty kept him down, tho' he also struggled himself to make his _Fami- liar_ leave his hold: & the house shook violently. The next day he sent me his wife to ask a like a little grease to make a sacrifice (i.e. burnt offering X)--I gave her a little, & the husband came the same evening to sleep with us. Upon en- quiring he told me thus. "It was a _Skeleton_: he _was_ displeased with me because "I did not make him my usual offering & yet he knows that I am _pitiful_, "that I cannot move to hunt myself, but am beholding to others for every "mouthful I & my family eat; but they are wicked when they think themselves