Then they had to smoke and nod a little before the fire--and by and by I heard all about the Great Spirit, and Hookah the Giant, and the powers of the Sacred Medicine.

All that is said in this book of their religion, laws, and sentiments, I learned from themselves, and most of the incidents occurred precisely as they are represented.

Some few have been varied, but only where it might happily illustrate a peculiar custom or opinion.
Their medicine men, priests, and jugglers, are proverbially the greatest scamps of the tribe.

My dear father must forgive me for reflecting so harshly on his brother practitioners, and be reconciled when he hears that they belong to the corps of quacks; for they doubt their own powers, and are constantly imposing on the credulity of others.

On returning from an evening walk, we met, near the fort, a notable procession.