26S TRAVELS through 



them, I wifhed they would tell me their proper 

 names. As thefe people are neither baptifed 

 nor circumcifcd, they commonly take thename 

 of fome animal, fuch as bear, wolf, fox, &c. 

 The gravity which I affcdted, in order to com- 

 mand the refpecl of thefe Indian dodlors, made 

 them aflc me, whether I wrote their names in or- 

 der to give an account of them to their father, 

 by means of the fpeaking paper ? to which I 

 anfwered, that it v/as for that very purpofe. 



When I had written down their names, I 

 fometimes made ufe of them in order to pafs for 

 a fortune-teller. 



I fliut myfelf up in the hut of one of the doc- 

 tors, and a foldier, to whom I had told the 

 number of letters which compofed each name, 

 put his hand on the Ihoulder of the juggler, 

 and with a little rod flruck him as many times as 

 there were letters in his name ; I being within 

 eafiiy guelled what man my foldier laid his hands 

 upon J and fo on with ail the reff . They could 

 not comprehend how I could guefs fo well with- 

 out feeing them, and they owned that it went 

 beyond tlieir imagination. 



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