The Indian endeavored to express these in a language imperfectly understood by the whites, and naturally the hearers interpreted these expressions according to their own predilections. It is not strange, therefore, that very little has come to us that can be implicitly accepted. But all our witnesses unite upon this important point, -- thea-e was no kind of idolatry practiced among the aborigines here. They believed in one all-wise, all-powerful and beneficent Being, whom they called the Cireat Spirit, and to whom they offered prayer. They also believed in an evil spirit. The former they knew under the name Cantantowit. and the latter under that of Hobbamocko. The former had sent them their corn and beans. A crow first brought a grain of corn in one ear and a bean in the other, from their heaven, which they called the happy hunting-grounds, located in the far southwest. Their highest conceptions of a place of blessings were associated with the southwest, because the wind from that quarter is soft and balmy and an indicator of fair weather. The dead were buried with their faces toward the abode of the blessed.

They believed in rewards and punishments hereafter, and they held that after death the souls of the good went to the home of Cantantowit, far away in the good southwest. There they were delivered from every sorrow and preserved from all suflering. The pleasures they there enjoyed were similar in character with those they had known here, but their perfection was more complete and their abundance exhaustleas. The wicked knocked also at the same door, but were denied admittance, and, being turned away^ they wandered forever in a state of horror and restless discontent.