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some Powder and Shot, to kill Deer with, I will do my beat 

 still to recover your Health. 



The Poor-man being very much dejected with the Mis- 

 fortunes that he had already met with, made the Indian this 

 reply. I know my Distemper is now past the power of Man 

 to cure, and if our English Doctor s cou'd not cure it, I am 

 throughly perswaded that the Indians cannot. 



But his Wife accosted him in the most endearing and 

 mild terms and told him, he did not know but God might be 

 pleas'd to give a gTeater blessing to the Indians undertaking 

 than he had done to the English, and likewise said, if it 

 shou'd please God that you shou'd dye, I cannot be much 

 more miserable by giving that small trifle to the Indian 

 which he demands. Therefore I beg of you to take my ad- 

 vice and try him. 



At length by the many perswasions and Importunities of 

 his Wife and Family he consented. And when the bargain 

 was concluded, the Indian went into the Woods and brought 

 with him several kinds of Roots and Herbs, whereof he made 

 a strong Decoction and gave it to the Patient to drink, and 

 immediately orderd him to go to Bed, adding that it would 

 not be long before he wou'd return again to visit him. The 

 Patient punctually performed every thing as he was ordered 

 by the Indian, and had not been long in Bed before the Po- 

 tion that was administer'd made him Sweat after the most 

 violent manner that could be, and during its operation he 

 smelPd so offensively to himself and all those that were near 

 him, that scarce any one cou'd bear to go into the House or 

 Room where he lay. 



Late in the Evening the Indian comes to visit the Patient 

 with a great Rattle-Snake alive (which terrified the Family 

 almost out of .their Senses) and told the Sick-man that he 



must 



