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Show OF THE PRESENT STATE Clavigero.assures us, that the natives of Mex| delwasa great Pace onceeee that ** there 3s ico had the ss tradition, cee eo “2 s Tepzi, in order to save himseit trom: being ©? uve; and chil- his wife and in a ship, with ¥ drowned. embarked /* as the waters abated, ® dren, and many animals.—That bodies. he sent out a bird, which remained eating dead with a returned pig He then sent out a little bird, which ae small branch.” Doctor Beatty says that an Indian in Ohio informed, ‘‘ Once the waters drowned ail people that one of their traditions was; had overflowed all the land, and then living, except a few, who made a great canoe aid saved.”’ were This Indian added, to Dr. Beatty, that ‘‘a long time azo the people went to build a high place; that while they were building, they lost their language, and could not a understand each other.” Doctor Boudinot assures us that two ministers of sBis acquaintance informed him, that they being among the Indians away toward the Mississippi, the Indians r ~* * there « one that «« him people under him; that he had twelve sons by whom he administered his government; but the sons beltrving illy, lost this government over the other people. ek * x =e" = twelve sons. née -~ eS Mr. « and his Jacob conceraing dent traditionary wotion ™ pretty evi- to be a This the two ministers conceived if th, = -_ = the other had father, who had a common ago they Ses have a Indians Adair informs that the southern \ ; 7} ‘‘sanctried, tradition that their ancestors once hada secms which ;” time s night’ one in d badde rod, which % ry . a tradition Bay i Ss ; . ar es 3 Cc } Gi : . rod. of Aaron’s © denote Various traditions of the Indians strikingly their of ms infor y Beatt Dr. their Hebrew extraction. , thinks he ring. answe feast, calied the hunter’s feast; it bes descri He to the Pentecost in ancient Israel. _as follows ;—_-~ : Ny de tw elve de 0 _» ~ “They choose twelve men, who a provi sapi’s with — ©; Faeh of the twelye men cuts : . = : 4 4 wiih biankets. they forma tent, covered iit - pe nic rate : hey Lic + Saw agaii vo* #. ne Ss ; % y* 2 Py. Ss he observes, : < 3 Ps 433 but ten men, " ten ~ Some. poles dl +9, 31, 32. ‘In short, (says Dr. Beatty,) I was aston ished to find so many of the Jewish cust oms prevailing amon g them; and began to conclude there was some affinity between them and the Jews.” F Col. Smith, in his history of New-Jersey, says of an- \ '| other region of Indiannss, “They y never eat of the | of the thigh of any thing they kill.” Charlevoix, holl slack: ing of the Indians still further to the north. says he met with people who could not help thinkin that thing some affinity between them. Some things he states ; as on certain meals, neglecting the use of knives ; not breaking a bone of the animal they eat ; hever eating the part under the lower joint of the thigh; but throwing it away. Such are their traditions from their ancient fathers. Other travellers among them speak of their peculiar evening feast, in which nn oy of their sacrifice may be broken. No bone might be broken of the ancient paschal lamb in Israel, which . sean in the evening. erent men who had been eye wi 7 : of this, and other feasts, reseosbiian the poses en eee Zelative to this peculiar evening feast , that eve nily cannot eat all they have prepared . a\ ““tsndouring family is invited to partake with them ; \ and ifany yof itbe still oo left. eft, iij must be > burnbur ed befor for e eta the | —/ 8Xt rising sun. Over can doubt | tian: Chris A some sue who read the the orivin a | of mine io a buo! friend time since read oR we 4 ames : # XD ay 2S oe af ees . , we $s choose ? and ten stones. Here seems an evident ailusion to the twelve tribes; and also to some idea of the ten sepaaie tribes of Israel. Upon the stones of their altar they suffered no tool to pass. No tool might pass dy a certain altar in Israel, oo. he middle dle pout joir of the thigh hi of their game, Dr. Bett) " orms, the Indians refuse .» eat. Thus did an;cient Isr tee the ange igel l haa ha touc touched the holl | ow of ro s tmgh in the sinew that shrank: Gen. xxxij Zn a # So -— | J y . HA7 choose twelve stones for an altar of sacrifice. 4 ce Rag ISRAEL. g that the In-~ was,—a great wine of their traditions AND dians were descended from the Hebrews, and found in every informed (who never before saw a white man.) JUDAH - aT ag es, —a oe -> eZ. # - a 25 J — Ee 2a » i me. that hese. | which henow cannot! on 4 je Ce" . as oe informs . "St |: cpRSorE. [ 2 é “fe £ ie a b xm & 2 = af. ae " ~ ~ taeaet fC © * ¥ , ee > - . ia oa ‘fe o ? + ve : e, a) ia on . a — * :+ : *of . Es 4 - so Fi ; |
