In fact it is said that he upholds the earth to this day. In one of the cases of the " Richmond collection " in the museum of the Montgomery County Historical Society, is an old rattle which can be traced back more than a hundred years. We have looked upon it as an interesting relic of the Senecas, a rude musical instrument. It is made from a turtle shell and skin, and in the enclosed space has been placed pebbles for rattles. But this instrument is interesting beyond all that. Father Le- June, in his Relation of 1639, makes the following statement in describing a dance at a feast given for a sick woman : " At the head of tihe procession marched two masters of ceremonies, singing and holding the tortoise, on which they did not cease to play. This tortoise is not a real tortoise, but only the shell and skin, so arranged as to make a sort of drum or rattle. Having thrown certain pebbles into it they make from it an instrument like that the children in France used to play with. There is a mysterious something, I know not what, in this semblance of a tortoise, to Which these people attribute their origin. We shall know in time what there is to it." It is said that in no Amerind (the word Amerind is a new word coined by the Bureau of Ethnology to take the place of the three words " North American Indian." You will notice that it is composed or formed from the first four letters of American and the first three letters of Indian) language, could the Jesuit Priests find a word to express the idea of God or His attributes. Although the most charitable of people and showing the utmost aflfection for their children, the Jesuits v^^ere unable, in the Amerind language, to impress upon them or to communicate to them, the idea of an all-loving and charitable Supreme Being.