that then they will have to provide for their children by
their own exertions, do not care to have many children, and
infanticide, both before and after birth, prevails to a
great extent. This is not considered a crime, and old women
of the tribe practice it. A widow may marry again after a
year's mourning for her first husband; but having children
no man will take her for a wife and thus burden himself with
her children. Widows generally cultivate a small piece of
ground, and friends and relatives (men) plow the ground for
them.

Fig. 2, drawn from Captain Grossman's description by my friend Dr. W.J.
Hoffman, will convey a good idea of this mode of burial.

Stephen Powers[8] describes a similar mode of grave preparation among
the Yuki of California:

The Yuki bury their dead in a sitting posture. They dig a
hole six feet deep sometimes and at the bottom of it
"_coyote_" under, making a little recess in which the corpse
is deposited.

The Comanches of Indian Territory (_Nem, we, or us, people_), according
to Dr. Fordyce Grinnell, of the Wichita Agency, Indian Territory, go to
the opposite extreme, so far as the protection of the dead from the
surrounding earth is concerned. The account as received is given entire,
as much to illustrate this point as others of interest.

When a Comanche is dying, while the death-rattle may yet be
faintly heard in the throat, and the natural warmth has not