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so asked. They seem to know of a few herbs which
they medically employ, in certain cases, they also
apply warm water; they breath at times in
the sick persons nostrils or mouth or hands
the hands they often manipulate upon by rubbing
them for a time. F. But I will give you some
instanes of their [word crossed out] of their mysterious performances.
[IN RIGHT SIDE MARGIN:] some of their performances would remind one of mesmerism
I remember one evening, a Black Man was
said to be in great pain - a griping pain
in his stomach on whom they manipulated. At last they came running
to me and exclaimed that the Backfellow
was cured showing me a stone - it was a
white quarz - which they allege one of the
doctors had by some mysterious process
extracted from his body. Having exam-
ined the stone, I said Why this stone
is so dirty and greezy just as if it had
long been handled about & had been
kept in one of those dirty bags they carry
about & I see Blackfellows finger marks and it would not look so if it
had just come out of a man's body. This
caused a hearty laugh among my young
men and they seemed to comprehend the delusion.
On another occasion something more plausible
was practised. I heard that something
very extraordinary was going on at the Camp

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