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I told him that he was perhaps unfortunate in his interpreters as but four of them had the intelligence to understand even the simple principles of the Christian religion and as the Indians of a necessity had to employ many symbols to send and give out their ideas concerning the supernatural that it would taken considerable study to get at the truth. I told him I think his Indian have just as high a conception of the Deity but that his lack of the knowledge of their language and the incompetency of his interpreters prevented his getting a the thoughts of the people in that [[?]]. He thins that such ideas came only to people who had fixed habitations and engaged in agriculture as the [[Pannus?]] and Omahas and doubted if

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the [[Keiras?]], Comanches and Cheyennes, who were entirely nomadic could have ever found time to give thoughts to such abstract ideas. We had a long discussion about it and he expressed amazement that Dorrey and others who studies among their people did not mention any such thing. I told him that Dorrey was more interested in philosophy than the religious ideas of the people and did not even penetrate the surface. He says there was no ceremony of ending the war [[bonnet?]] among the [[Kirres?]] and Cheyens. He seems to make a great deal of things that are not of the slightest consequence. His wife apologizes for him and says he is at a disadvantage on account of his lack of knowledge of the language. Last Tuesday