Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1807-08-12

us SOcV i'HsS, SStliDS VTunk, Ut the ike (; bilt
the fifth time, SAYS the Great Spirit, g uou
shall surely die."1
Your wise men Tor conjurorsl have bad
medicine in their bags. They must throw
away their medicine bags, and when the me-
dicine is in blossom, collect it fresh and
pure. You must make TO teaSts to the evil
spirit of the earth; but only to the good
spirits of the air. You are no more To dance
the wABANo,. nor the ,PIoGAN, or hihe
dance | did not put you on the earth TO
dance those dances, but you are to dance
naked, with your bodies tainted, and with
the Piogamaugum war club1 in your
hands. You must all have this weapon and
never leave il behind you When youdance
thus, SHALL ALWhrs LOOK ON WITH
PLEASURE. You are to make your
seltss PAKA ToUhNACs, (or crosses) which
you must always carry with YOU, and amuse
yourselves often with that game. kind
of bat ball common among the sivages,
which requires great agility.l Your wo-
men must have also handsome hd8sd qpa-
2'Gke s that they NAV. play also for made
you To anuse yourselves, and an delight
ed when see. YOU happy. You are, howe
yer, to gro 70 Svar against each other,
but 10 cultivate peace between your differ
ent tribes, that they may become one great
feofic
M Chiiircn--No Indian must ever sell
rum 10 Indians 1t makes him rich, but
when he dies he becomes very wrctchcd.
You bury him with all hiswealih and orna-
ments about him, and as he goes along the
pa,h CT the dead, they fall rom him. he
stops to take them up, and they become
dusr. He I last arrives almost at the place
o. rest. and then crumbles into dust him
self. But those. VINO by their labor furnish
themselves with niece Ssaries only, when
they die are happy; ,ad when they arrive
at the land Of the dead, will find their wig
VAN furnished with every thing they had
on earth.
Tz.'e far tbe Crea S6i-it
Nv my cIl!d en- said he FIasr CREATED
MAN, 'is,cn what am about 20 add Tive
Great a2ii. then orened door, Slowing me
heir a a deer both very small and very lear
,?d aid look mere nv son these ave he am
m lSthS' are NOW on me ear,h the Red People
'iavs peeled item by killing them 700 yo,nr and
giv.nE n. IL mes, to :he WHITES and also by
g'tss,. hvn Ives with thri f4r. VIII oh i, vp.
wrong Tre women whsn hey grease their |, -
dies cr ,h"iF hair should do Il orly W. n l,e f., .
of he smaller animals of 'acoon5, &C ottc.s. az
make &c The GREAT sPIgtT ihsn, opened
an''h.r door, and she we'd me a Bear and deey
eN 'smth Eat and e very ex raordnarv s'z,
"a mo | ok he'e nv son! T9eee a,e ,he ari
mails pacei on tle ear h when c.ea,ed you "
NV m children, i.ien 20 whar say. end
le IT eint in'n your ears-Ilis The ord,r of he
GgzAr rinIT
Ny Collaboration r'un ro' steak IF fb's ,gie
70 nc Ep5ites II musi be 6iates ON ,t'em lam
now on the earrh ert ~ the Grea So,. /. TO in
sruG vou. Each ri lage must send me two or
m 'e p INC pal Chiefs represent 70 ii that YOU
may h. taught The he, erDf hi. nix vii roin.
~nf tp Won N ~
come myself 10 .i,bre Ctocbe, hecal.e ,he world
- changed from what It was; is broken, aud
ean' Gown and a; II declines the Chipaeva
md a! b'yond viii fall or and die the efcrr YOU
must come 20 see M and be instructed, in der
o 'rrvent it. Those villages which DO nor lis
en- 10 'hiS'sk ani lend me two depu,ics, 4ik
he eH' 4 I'om he face Of ,be ea-tb.