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Their sick and aged are carefully & humanely attended, and the latter (the aged) are generally entrusted to the Youngest son of the family or nearest young relation; and the old people bestow the fruit of their industry solely upon their Guardian, probably out of gratitude or with a view to indemnify him as far as lies in their power, for the inconveniencies inseparable from his Situation. They have a most confused Idea, if any at all, of Religion. They do not comprehend, much less acknowledge any thing of a Supreme Power, and yet in the morning generally before they get up, an old or middle aged man hums, or sings an air, which from the tone and manner appears to me to be a kind of thanksgiving or the grateful effusions resulting from a pleasant night's rest; whether this is the case

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