BOURKK.J Till . PAY OF THE MEDICINE-MAN. 467 



i mezclados cou el v l iino, s e 1&quot; daban a bcbcr al niuerto por la boea, i law narices, i 

 luego le preguntahaii iniicliaa veees, si el Medico guardo dicta, hasta quo hablando 

 el domouio, respondia tan claro, romo si t uera vivo, i deeia, quo l Medico no bico 

 dieta, i luego le Imlviuu a. la sepiiltura. 



Thou tho relatives attacked the medicine- man : &quot;I le daban tantos 

 palos, &amp;lt;iue le &amp;lt;iuel&amp;gt;rabau los brac,os, i las piernas, i a otros sacaban los 

 ojos, i los eortabau sus mieiubros genitales.&quot; 1 



Alexander the Great expressed his sorrow at the death of his friend 

 Hepluestion by crucifying the poor physicians who had attended the 

 deceased. 1 



The medicine-men of the Natchez were put to death when they failed 



to cure. 3 



fe 



/The Apache attach as much importance to the necessity of &quot;laying 



tho manes 1 of their dead as the Romans did. They have not localized 

 the site of the future world as the Mohave have, but believe that the 

 dead remain for a few days or nights in the neighborhood of the place 

 where they departed from this life, and that they try to communicate 

 with their living friends through the voice of the owl. If a relative hears 

 this sound by night, or, as often happens, he imagines that he has 

 seen the ghost itself, lie hurries to the nearest medicine-man, recites his 

 story, and carries out to the smallest detail the prescription of feast, 

 singing, dancing, and other means of keeping the spirit in good humor 

 on the journey which it will now undertake to the &quot;house of spirits,&quot; 

 the &quot;chidin-bi-kungua.&quot; Nearly all medicine-men claim the power of 

 going there at will, and not a few who are not medicine-men claim the 

 same faculty. 



The medicine-men of the Apache are paid by each patient or by his 

 friends at the time they are consulted. There is no such thing as a 

 maintenance fund, no system of tithes, nor any other burden for their 

 support, although I can recall having seen while among the Zufli one 

 of the medicine-men who was making cane holders for the tobacco to 

 be smoked at a coming festival, and whose fields were attended and 

 his herds guarded by the other members of the tribe. 



Among the Eskimo &quot;the priest receives fees beforehand.&quot; 4 



&quot; Tons ces sorciers ne refusaient leurs secours a personne, pourvu. 

 qu on les payait.&quot; 5 



&quot;Among other customs was that of those who came to be cured, giv 

 ing their bow and arrows, shoes, and beads to the Indians who accom 

 panied Vaca and his companions.&quot; 6 (But we must remember that Vaca 

 and his comrades traveled across the continent as medicine-men.) 



&quot; Las sementeras que hacen los Asseuais son tambien de comunidad 



1 Hist. Gen., dec. 1. lib. 3, p. 69. 



2 Maclilcn, Slirini-s and Sepulchres, vol. 1, p. 14. 



a (Jayurrc, Louisiana: its Colonial History, p. 355. 

 4 Spencer, Desc. Sociology. 



8 lialboa. Hist, du Prou, Ternaux-Compans, vol. 15. 

 Davis. Conq. of Xew Mexico, p. 86. 



