•fiiere  are  very  few  o[  the  prairie  Indians
bat  practise  something  of  this  kind:  many
kill  tiie  favorite  hunting-horses,  and  deposite
the  arms^  etc,  of  the  deceased,  for  his  use  in
the  chase,  when  he  arrives  at  the  ^  happy  hunt-
ing ground.'  We  are  also  informed  by  Capt
Bonneville,  and  other  travellers,  that  this  is
practised  by  some,  if  not  ail,  of  the  natives
beyond  the  Rocky  Mountains.  The  same
is  told  of  the  Navajoes,  Apaches,  and
other  uncathohcized  tribes  of  the  north  of
Mexico.
Peter  Martyr,  a  learned  and  celebrated  pro-
testant  divine,  who  wrote  his  "  Decades  of
the  Newe  Worlde"  towards  the  middle  of  the
sixteenth  century,  observes  that,  "in  many
places  of  the  firme  lande,  when  any  of  the
kynges  dye,  all  his  householde  servauntes,  a^
well  women  as  men  which  have  continually
served  hym,  kyl  themselves,  beleavynge,  as
they  are  taught  by  the  devyl  TuyrOy  that  they
which  kyU  themselves  when  the  kynge  dyeth,
go  with  hym  to  heaven  and  serve  hym  in  the
same  place  and  office  as  they  dyd  before  on

*  Adair»  who  resided  forty  years  with  the  soathem  Indians,  pi6«
rious  to  1775,  speaks  of  the  same  among  them  all.
344  INDIAN   BELIEFS.
