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cat's head againft my ftomach, I cried out as if 

 the creature had bit me, flinging it on the ground 

 immediately; the foidier whom I had armed 

 with a club, ftrikes at the revived tyger-cat, in 

 order to kill it for having revolted againft its 

 m after, and for havmg been willing to attack 

 red men, who were our friends and allies. 



After this comic fcene, I gave the fkin to the 

 Indian juggler, an4 defired him to make it re- 

 vive as I had done. He owned, that my art 

 was above the reach of his. I then bid him en- 

 chant my boat to prevent its going on ; but he 

 anfwered, that one phyfician againft another 

 could do nothing ; that I was his mafter. in the 

 art, and he an ignorant fellow ''*, All the fa- 



vages 



"•'•• The Indians repofe a great confidence in their doi^ors ; 

 the juggler's hut is covered with furs, with which he covers 

 and drefle§ himfelf. He goes in quite naked, and begins 

 v/ith pronouncing fome words which no body underflands ; 

 they are, as he fays, to im^oke the Spirit ; after that he 

 rifes, cries, agitates himfelf, appears quite frantic, and 

 gets into a profound fweat f . 



The hut fhakes, and the fpeclators believe it is done 

 through the prefence of the Spirit ; the language which he 

 fpeaks on this occafion, has nothing in common with the or- 

 dinary Indian language ; it is nothing but the ravings of a 



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