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for it. Hence after much debate Henry Obail son of Cornplanter being permited to speak said, why this image you worship was once a little sprout that grew out of the ground it could neither hear nor speak - well it was made like a man and we worship it still it can neither hear nor speak- is this the sort of Great Spirit we worship, cant hear can’t speak - give me leave and I will make way with it.- At length it was given up to him, and he tumbled it into the river &; it floated away -- but they watched him thinking some evil would happen him for so doing -- Notwithstanding their image is gone they still continue regularly twice a year their dances, offering sacrafices, some- times burning tobacco &;c 12mo 23 From her diary. It has been snow- ing more or less these two days -- 25th Various reflections pass'd thro’ my mind to day as I sat knitting, of which the following is a part-- At this lone-