sauvagesse voyant sa soeur mourante, par la
quantite de cigue qui elle avoit pris dans un depit, et determine a ne
faire aucun remede pour se garantir de la mort, pleuroit a chaudes
larmes, et s'efforcoit de la toucher par les liens du sang, et de
l'amitie qui les unissoit ensemble. Elle lui disoit sans cesse, 'C'en
est donc fait; in veux que nous ne nous retrouvions jamais plus, et que
nous ne nous revoyions jamais?' Le missionnaire, frappe de ces paroles,
lui en demanda la raison. 'Il me semble,' dit-il, 'que vous avez un pays
des ames, ou vous devez tous vous reunir a vos ancetres; pourquoi donc
est ce que tu parles ainsi a la soeur?' 'Il est vrai,' reprit-elle, 'que
nous allons tous au pays des ames; mais les mechants, et ceux en
particulier, qui se sont detruits eux-memes par un mort violente, y
portent la peine de leur crime; ils y sont separes des autres, et n'ont
point de communication avec eux: c'est la le sujet de mes
peines.'"--Lafitau, tom. i., p. 404. See Appendix, LII. (see Vol II)]

[Footnote 259: Hunter gives the following view of the Indian mythology,
while describing his own and his companions' first sight of the Pacific
Ocean: "Here the surprise and astonishment of our whole party was
indescribably great. The unbounded view of waters, the incessant and
tremendous dashing of the waves along the shore, accompanied with a
noise resembling the roar of loud and distant thunder, filled our minds
with the most sublime and awful sensation, and fixed on them as
immutable truths the tradition we had received from our old men, that
the great waters divide the residence of the Great Spirit from the
temporary abodes of his red children. We have contemplated in silent
dread the immense difficulties over which we should be obliged to
triumph after death before we could arrive at those delightful
hunting-grounds, which are unalterably destined for such only as do
good, and love the Great Spirit. We looked in vain for the stranded and
shattered canoes of those who had done wickedly; we could see none, and
were led to hope they were few in number. We offered up our devotions,
or, I might say, our minds were serious, and our devotions continued all
the time we were in this country, for we had ever been taught to believe
that the Great Spirit resided on the western side of the Rocky
Mountains; and this idea continued throughout the journey,
notwithstanding the more specific boundary assigned to Him by our
traditionary do