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are of course nothing more or less than a
kind of sorcerers and as they practise oc-
casionally by natural means we will allow
them to be called doctors. They have
some influence on the [indecipherable] & by
charms may not only prevail on them
to exercise their powers for evil but also
for good, for help & deliverance. For
these evil spirits are not altogether
confered of evil properties theya
can do good if they choose and re more
or less at the bidding of the Aboriginal
doctor to work some evil & to do some
good & kind act, if only the doctor
knows to conciliate their favor. Then
I remember one evening several of the
Aborgines came running to me to assure
me how a doctor had relieved a woman
who suffered great pain in her stomach
he extracted by some mysterious process
a stone from her body which was shown
to me. It was a white quartz. However
as it's found it to be [indecipherable] besmeared with