Pidgeons pickd & opened ready for dres
sing, inclosed in a piece of bark all the
product of her own labour except that her
husband fell he trees for her on which the young
when the Indians Die the Women
generally Inter them; having first dug
the Grave. They lay bark under & above
the Dead body & their covering all with
Earth with persons of note they usually bury Cloathing & Provision &c. Since Friends have been here they
are more in the way of having Coffins
which the men make, but they rarely at
tend at the Interment even now and
formerly not at all - when the Corpse
is thus interd every moring for Nine
Days successively the female rela
tives & Neighbours of the Deceased Col
lect at the Deceased's Habitation & fall
into a kind of throbbing Lamentation &
then to crying & Wailing - for the
space of Half an hour or more
after which they disperse & when
the days of Mourning are thue ended they
meet & are councild to Dry up their Tears after this
endeavor to discard all marks of
lamentation

They acknowledge One Supreme Being
whom they call Ou'wan'nee'o - and be
lieve Him to be the Creator of all