And not the purport. Truth may be then as the white men write,
And all our tribes in a darkness set, instead of light.
NOCTURNAL GRAVE LIGHTS.
It is supposed to be four days' journey to the land of the dead; wherefore, during four nights, the Chippewas kindle a fire on the grave.
Light up a fire upon my grave
When I am dead.
'Twill softly shed its beaming rays,
To guide the soul its darkling ways;
And ever, as the day's full light