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Show 46 SPEECH OF KIN CQE- fiSS. his left hand remaining at his breast, and his eyes following his right,- I go about a little while longer, hut will be cut off shortly and my spirit will go away ( or will die). Placing the thumbs and forefingers again in such a position as if he held a small thread between the thumb and forefinger of each hand, and the hands touching each other, he drew his hands slowly from each other, as if he were stretching a piece of gum- elastic; then laying his right hand on me, he extended the left hand in a horizontal position, fingers extended and closed, and brought down his right hand with fingers extended and together, so as to just miss the tips of the fingers of his left hand; then placing his left forefinger and thumb against his heart, he acted as if he took a hair from the forefinger and thumb of his left hand with the forefinger and thumb of the right, and slowly cast it from him, only letting his left hand remain at his breast, and let the index- finger of the right hand point outward toward the distant horizon,- A$ er a long time you die. When placing his left hand upon himself and his right hand upon me, he extended them upward over his head and clasped them there,-*- We then meet in heaven. Pointing upward, then to himself, then to me, he closed the third and little finger of his right hand, laying his thumb over them, then extending his • first and second fingers about as far apart as the eyes, he brought his hand to his eyes, fingers pointing outward, and shot his hand outward,- I see you up there. Pointing to me, then giving the last above- described sign of " look," then pointing to himself, he made the sign as if stretching out a piece of gum- elastic between the fingers of his left and right hands, and then made the sign of ucut- off" before described, and then extended the palm of the right hand horizontally a foot from his waist, inside downward, then suddenly threw it half over and from him, as if you were to toss a chip from the back of the hand ( this is the negative sign everywhere used among these Indians),- I would see him a long time, which should never * be cut off, i. e. j always. Pointing upward, then rubbing the back of his left hand lightly with the forefinger of his right, he again gave the negative sign,- No Indian tJiere ( in heaven). Pointing upward, then rubbing his forefinger over the back of my hand, he again made the negative sign,- No white man there. He made the same sign again, only he felt his hair |
