NORtH AMERtICAN INDIANS.



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with proper teachers, who were considered as officers of



state. These c
of the boys coi
for the army, t:
parts or disposi
to~~ -ndut



to rndui
stemioln
It inten
most ho
to give
they coi
senvinai



1oe in 1(
sly and
led for
n ourab
proofs (
uld be
'vles for



under the direc
ed their pupils
tocrether with t
ments, which c
education, but
state.  Both se
they were initi
with therm was
  Thei r fuineu(
of their less po



aarefhlly studied thie dispositions and parts
nmitted to their charge, and fitted them
[ie church, orl the state, according as these
otions directr d  T'bey were not permitted
)nfl sleep.  They were forced to live ab-
I be inuired to the most fati o cuing exercises.
the army, which they considered as the
le of all employments, they were oliged
)f their couirage and intrepidity, before
enrtolled as soldiers. There xvere also
the education of females. These were
dton of respectrable matrons, who insiructm-
in the principles of relio'ion and morality
hose less dignified domestic accomplish-
ire too frequently neglected in a femeale
which are no less useful in a mriat-rield
xes were instructed in music and dalncino;
ated in the poetry of their country, which
1not a frtuitlehss amusement.



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I rites
islied



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When a person died, t
in his best attire. He
taken leave of by all
priests in the neiorhbot



-iad a
neigh
t.he ba
was
his
irhoo



stnk inar resern
bours, the Norn
1dy was washed
i set uprig-ht,
friends and re
d attended the



)ln mce to those
.h Americtans.
I, and dressed
and formally
lations. The
body to the



place of interment;
melancholy airs on



singinc inoturnful sonas and playing
their instruments. They were in-



terred in thieir
their arms, an
various kinds,
during life. ]
men, several r
order to atten(
seems not to
burying their
burnt them: a



or dinary habits.
'I  -  .



or
t is
dlaV
d th
be
dea
nd



;oametries g
those things
even said, t
ves were put
eir mnasters
sufficiently
d, they are



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Ad
WI
.iat
to
in



With thwemn
, silver, n(
iich they hw
t, along witl
death and
a future sta



authenticated.
said, sometim



were buried
ecessaries of
id esteemed
h their great
interred in
te; but this
Instead of
es, to have



this seems to have been true, chiefly,



with regard to their chiefs and princes.



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