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is entombed. They seldom however, if nearly related, pass near to the spot, after an absence, without going to pay their tribute to his manes and generally tear some of their property and leave it there. I am led to think that the women are soon forgotten, at least they pay much less attention to them at their Exit. In winter, according to circumstances, the Corpse lies several days unscaffolded, and when a favourite child or Boy, will often remain eight days. In summer scarcely 24 hours.

It only remains, My Dear Sir, to see what we have to relate concerning the Third and last Tribe, called the big & long arrowed Indians, who are in the habit, very few at least, of resorting to this place for the purpose of traffic. This Tribe inhabit a Country to the Northward of this place: a Country pretty regular as to its surface in general, interspersed with numerous lakes,

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