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not do it over again, left fome one of them 

 fhould be devoured by the revived creature, and 

 the better to convince them, I fhewed them the 

 marks of the animal's teeth on my ftomach. 

 They then approved very much of v/hat I had 

 faid, and thanked me for interefting myfelf Ta 

 iiiuch for them, as to expofe myfelf generouily 

 to prevent, the furious revived . tyger-cat from 

 killing their women and children ; they added, 

 that I had done well to reduce it to its lifelefs 

 ilate, in order to make it an example to others, 

 becaufe it was an evil fpirit ; thefe poor people 

 regard the French as fupernatural men. 



- It is Ibmetimes dangerous to be a doflor ; for 

 if fome one dies among the Indians, they attri- 

 bute his death to the phyfic, and not to the in- 

 curable difpofition of the patient ; therefore I 

 would never advife any body to abufe the cre- 

 dulity of thefe people. Ilikewife told them, that 

 fince 1 had been bitten I had abjurated the oifice 

 of a magician, and that I knew no other phyfi- 

 cian than the Mafter of life ^ whofe aid they ought 

 to implore-, that he was as much the father of 

 the red men as of the white men, who are their 

 elder brothers. 



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