They address Prayers and sacrifice to the supreme being the last for Ordinary Occasions consists in hanging in hanging Tobacco or Goods on a Pole or planting a may Pole daub'd with vermillion but in Extreordinary Occasions such as the death, of friends or Relations, they will throw away every thing they can possibly spare and some time indeed leave themselves in a manner nak'd, they have other sacrifices which consist in burning a certain part of most Animals they Kill, this I am told is from An Opinion they have that if these parts were not burn'd they would not be able to Kill any other of the same species, and when ask'd what would prevent them, they Answer, that that Animal (meaning the species) would be angry – and would not shew them charity again for a like Reason their are particular Bones of particular Animals, which are unlawfull for a dog to Gnaw and particular parts of some Animals which A woman must not Eat.

They Burey their dead with all their hunting Implements on the top of their Coffin or Grave; the commonality in the Ground Earth, the Cheifs are put in coffins are placed above in their coffins on post about six feet above the Ground[.] The only ceremony regarding the funeral and Corps is pulling a lock of hair off the head. [T]his is in general perform'd by a stranger, who is oblig'd to give a fathom of Strouds or some such

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