514 MEDICINE-MEN OF THE APACHE. 



and whip tlio apple trees. . . . The good woman gives them 

 some meal.&quot; 



Among the rustics of Great Britain down to a very recent period 

 there were in use certain &quot;love powders,&quot; the composition of which is 

 not known, a small quantity of which had to be, sprinkled upon the 

 food of the one beloved. 2 



Attached to the necklace of human fingers before described, cap 

 tured from OTie of the chief medicine-men of the Cheyenne Indians, is a 

 bag containing a powder very closely resembling hoddentin, if not hod- 

 denim itself. 



It is said that the Asinai made sacrifice to the scalps of their ene 

 mies, as did the Zuui as late as 1881. &quot;Ofrecen a las calaveras pinole 

 molido y de otras cosas comestibles.&quot; :1 



Perrot says the Indians of Canada had large medicine bags, which 

 he calls &quot;pindikossan,&quot; which, among other things, contained &quot;des 

 racines ou des poudres pour leur servir de me decines.&quot; 4 



In an article on the myth of Manibozho, by Squier, in American His 

 torical Magazine Review, 1848, may be found an account of the adven 

 tures of two young heroes, one of whom is transferred to the lift of 

 gods. He commissioned his comrade to bring him offerings of a white 

 wolf, a polecat, some pounded maize, and eagles tails. 



Laplanders sprinkle cow and calf with flour. 5 



Cameron met an old chief ou the shores of Lake Tanganyika, of whom 

 he says: &quot;His forehead and hair were daubed with vermilion, yellow, 

 and white powder, the pollen of flowers.&quot; e 



In the incantations made by the medicine-men of Africa, near the 

 head of the Congo, to preserve his expedition from fire, Cameron saw 

 the sacrifice of a goat and a hen, and among other features a use of 

 powdered bark closely resembling hoddentin: &quot;Scraping the bark off 

 the roots and sticks, they placed it in the wooden bowl and reduced it 

 to powder.&quot; The head medicine-man soon after &quot;took up a handful of 

 the powdered bark and blew some toward the sun and the remainder 

 in the opposite direction.&quot; 7 



The magic powder, called &quot; uganga,&quot; used as the great weapon of 

 divination of the mganga, or medicine-men of some of the African tribes, 

 as mentioned by Speke, 8 must be identical with the powder spoken of by 

 Cameron. 



Near the village of Kapeka, Cameron was traveling with a caravan 



1 Blount,Teirarea of Land and Customs of Manors, London, 1874, p. 355. 

 2 lirand. Popular Antiquities, London, 1882, vol. 3, pp. 307 et seq. 



3 Crimea Seratica, p. 434. 



4 Nicolas Perrot, Jlct urs, Coustumes et Relligion des sauvagea de I Anu rique Septentrional* (Ed. 

 of liov. I*. J. Taliban, S. J,,) Leipzig, 1864. Perrot was a coureur de bois, interpreter, and donne of the 

 Jesuit missions among the Ottawa. Sioux, Iowa, etc., from 1605 to 1701. 



Lec ins , Account of Danish Lapland, in Pinkertoifs Voyages. London. 1814, vol. l,p.484. 



6 Across Africa, London, 1877, vol. 1. p. 277. 



7 Ibid., vol. 2, pp. 118,120. 



* Source of the Nile, London. 186:i. introd.. p. xxi. 



