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belonged to Na-a-cha and consisted of a piece of buckskin of the same 

 size as the other, but either on account of age or for some other reason 

 no characters could be discerned upon it. It, however, enwrapped a 

 tiny bag of hoddentin, which, in its turn, held a small but very clear 

 crystal of quart/, and four feathers of eagle down. Na-a-cha took care 

 to explain very earnestly that this phylactery contained not merely the 

 &quot;medicine&quot; or power of the crystal, the hoddentin, and theitza-chu, 

 or eagle, but also of the shoz-dijiji, or black bear, the shoz-lekay, or 



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FIG. 447. Phylacteries. 



white bear, the shoz-litzogue, or yellow bear, and the klij-litzogue or 

 yellow snake, though just in what manner he could not explain. 



It would take up too much time and space to describe the manner 

 in which it was necessary for me to proceed in order to obtain merely 

 a glimpse of these and other phylacteries, all of the same general 

 type; how I had to make it evident that I was myself possessed of great 

 &quot; medicine &quot; power and able to give presents of great &quot; medicine &quot; value, 



