and the incidental errors o f interpretation, appeared to
ferent modes of treating their dead ; or it might he oné' and the Tame
ceremony*: which we did ûôf^lMb^coiBprehtad^St'^l evdnts, k is
the practice of thefe people to bum the bodi^Of their dead, except the
larger hones, which are roiled op in hark andfefpended from poles* as I
have already deferibed. According to the Other account, it appeared
that they aéidafly bury Thek; dead ; and when another of thé fatailÿ
dies, the lemams of the* perfon -who Was laflr interred, are taken from,?!thft
grave and burned, as has been al ready mentioned ; fo that the members
o f a family are thus fti'ccsÉively buried andburned, to- make room fer
each other; and
itag generations. There is no honfe in this e(^nt^y, without: a tQffih in
its vicinity. Our lâft courfe extended about ten t»ifes.
We continued our jaurney ateng^he Jakehofere the honfe, and, etoff.
ittg a river that flowed out of it, came 'to a kind of bank* .or weir* formed
by the native®, for the purpofe o f placing their fi&idg, taachk«, m m j
éi'rwhfeh, of different fixes, were lying onthefidfi ofi-ihetriyerb. Our
guide placed one of them, with the certain expe&atiofi that On his’-return
he [hould find plenty of filh in it. We proceeded nine mdesfopher, on
a good road, Weft-South-Weft, when we came to a fmall idke i «® then
erefled a river that ran out o f it, and o.ur guides were inleènîinual ex--'
peftation- o f meeting with feme of the natives. To this place our courfe
was a mile and an half, in the farate dirêétioB fais the laft> : At nine-at
night we crolfed a river on rafts, our laft diftancebeing about four miles
South-Eaft, on a winding road, through a fwampy country, and along a
foeceffion of final) lakes. We were now quite exhaufted, and it-was
abfolutely
abfolptely necelfery for us to flop for, .the night, .The weather being
clear throughout the daya.w% h^4 no reafon tp complain of the. cold.
Our guides eneontagedps. with lh% hppe that, in j.y?p days of .fitnilar
exertion, we fhpuld arrive amppg the, people, of the other natipp..
At fve this morning, we. were again in motion^ and palling alpng a
itypr,. at length fordedlt. -Thisltreatn y»as 09t more, than knee deep,
^bput thirty yards pvpr,, and. with ,a ftanykQttpm. The pld man wpnt
cpwajd Ey hirnfelf, ‘in tjiq hope of falling in with the people, whom he
exps&ed to wept in, the courfe jpf the day,. . Atgfoven wg game up with
him, and. the natives whom he expected, cpnfiftirjg of five men, and
pait iof; their families. 'They .'received us wi|b kipdnefs, an.d , exam
inedusiwith the moil minute attention, i They muft, l^weyep,;, hay§
been told that we were white, as our faces, no longer indicated that dif*
tinguifbing complexion.. They, .called therofelvls Neguia Dinah, and
wereeome in a different direftion from us, but were now going the-fame
way, to , theAnah-yOeTeffe or River, and appeared to be very much
vJfhoy prefeoted us,; with fom®
£{h which they had juft taken in‘the adjoining lake. |
if .Here I expefted. that, opr guides,.like their,prpdepeifors, would have
quitted us, bAjt, oh the; contrary, they expreffed themfelves-to be fo happy
in- ou;r.vcompany, and that .of their, friends,: that they ,'volimtarily, and
with great cheerfudnefs proceeded to pafs another night withius. j Qur
pew(acquaintance were people o f a fvery pleating afpefi, The hair of
ithe women was tied in large loofe knots over the,ears, and plaited with
great neatnefs from the divifion of the head, fo as to be .included in the
knots.
Monday 15.