HUNTING, FISHING, &C. 401 
—which, if not killed by the fall of the tree, are very easily 
dispatched, the prize is secured, and the Indians have a feast. 
They never throw anything away. “They formerly eat en- 
trails, flesh and all, only scalded and took off the hair or 
feathers, I have seen them empty the entrails of large ani- 
mals of their dung, reanse them in cold water, boil or roast 
the em, and feast on them with as much ‘satisfaction as the 
white man would an oyster soup, roast pig, beef, or turkey. 
pis smaller auirpialy, sink as eeapices, ent rats and Pome) 
ad feathers, cook them wae and if ay h 
of them, flesh, guts, and all, many times. wie Me ag =| Soe 
As touching their medicinal operations, it appears,¢in’ short, 
as though they: had instinct equal to their sphere, planted i in 
them by the God of Nature, to enable their medicine men 
(as then called) to prepare from the Vegetable Kingdom such 
medicines as would cure any disease that they happened to be 
afflicted with ; and it appears that the fathers taught their 
children from generation to generation as they passed off, $0 
_ that there was no necessity of using quack-salver, or any of 
“the mineral drugs, and thereby rob and destroy each other. 
But since the white man has come among them, who has for 
several hundred years studied the art of the poison mineral 
drags, and how to use them in such a dark way so as to 
cheat and destroy one-another, and carrying into their wig- 
wams liquid fire, and all kinds of poisonous mineral drugs, 
seatt rin fire-brands, diseases of various kinds, and death, 
among them, they have passed almost entirely away, and their 
blood will be required at the white man’s hands, at the great 
day of retribution,. But when the pure ‘gospel i is carried to 
and preached to them, they receive it in good and honest 
hearts, and bring forth, some thirty, some sixty, and some an 
hundred fold. ; Ii2 
