Their Custom of Mourning for a friend or a relation is by cuting and scarifying their bodies particularly their Arms and breasts in such a Manner that the scars remain indelible and I beleive have some signification such as to shew how near related the deceas'd was to them.
With respect to Religion I beleive these People trouble themselves very little about it. they however ^they beleive that their is one Supream God whome they call and likewise a number of other inferior Deities, but whether or no they Worship or Pray to either one or the other we know not with any degree of certainty it is reasonable to suppose that they do and I beleive it, yet I never saw the least action or thing a mong them that tended to prove it —
They have the same notions of the Creation