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Auguft. 
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looked round with an air of exultation, and 
-newed his incantations, and continued them with- 
out intermiffion twenty-four hours. Though L 
‘was not clofe to his elbow when he performed 
-off to fee it fo plain as § could with; which in- 
‘caufe I was not near enough to detect the decep- | 
-and in afew days afterwards we left that place 
_and proceeded to the South Weft. | 
-our journey, and continued our courfe in the | 
-ever, who had been in our company, except — 
twelve tents, ftruck off different ways. As to 
A JOURNEY TO THE 
which apparently he hauled out of his mouth, to 
the no {mall furprize of all prefent. He then 
Rrutting into the conjuring-houfe, where he re-_ 
the above feat, yet kthought myfelf near enough 
(and I can aflure my readers I was all attention) | 
to have detected him. Indeed I muft confefs 
that it appeared to me to be a very nice piece of 
deception, efpecially as it was performed by a 
man quite naked. 
Not long after this flight-of-hand work was 
over, fome of the Indians afked me what I thought — 
of it; to which I anfwered, that I was too far — 
deed was no more than the ftricteft truth, be- © 
tion. The fick man, however, foon recovered ; 
On the ninth of Auguft, we once more purfued | 
South Weft quarter, generally walking about fe- _ 
ven or eight miles a day, All the Indians, how- 
myfelf, having had feveral days reft, my feet were 
completely healed, though the fkin remained © 
very tender for fome time, | 
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