Illustrations of the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indians : with letters and notes written during eight years of travel and adventure among the wildest and most remarkable tribes now existing ; with 360 engravings, from the author's original paintings . inJ^iiJJJJL. urn I iMj! i nm™n 11 n! n^i;! ijjjjiin 11 iij^^ L~-s>- l^^^^-^^^\f^.. 48 (?. CatLm. •> 89 cloth, or other costly stuff, offered up to the Great Spirit, over the door ofsome benignant chief, in humble p:ratitude for the blessings which he isenjoying. Such is a part of the strange medley that is before
Illustrations of the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indians : with letters and notes written during eight years of travel and adventure among the wildest and most remarkable tribes now existing ; with 360 engravings, from the author's original paintings . inJ^iiJJJJL. urn I iMj! i nm™n 11 n! n^i;! ijjjjiin 11 iij^^ L~-s>- l^^^^-^^^\f^.. 48 (?. CatLm. •> 89 cloth, or other costly stuff, offered up to the Great Spirit, over the door ofsome benignant chief, in humble p:ratitude for the blessings which he isenjoying. Such is a part of the strange medley that is before and aroundme ; and amidst them and the blue streams of smoke that are rising fromthe tops of these hundred coal-pits, can be seen in distance, the greenand boundless, treeless, bushless prairie; and on it, and contiguous tothe piquet wliich encloses the village, a hundred scaffolds on which their dead live, as they term it. These people never bury the dead, but place the bodies on slight scaffoldsjust above the reach of human hands, and out of the way of wolves anddogs; and they are there left to moulder and decay. This cemetery, orplace of deposite for the dead, is just back of the village, on a level prairie(plate 48); and with all its appearances, history, forms,
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