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love of the Indians towards each other, inclines 

 them to afTift each other when they are infirm. 

 This fincere love particularly fhews itfelf in the 

 lali duties which they pay to their friends and re^ 

 lations by their tears and grief, even then, when 

 they exift no more. 



The Indians in general have a great vene- 

 ration for their dodlors or jugglers, who are 

 real quacks, that impofe upon the people, and 

 live handfomely at their expence. They have a 

 great authority among the Indians^ and the latter 

 go to them upon every occafion for their ad- 

 vice ; they confult them as oracles. When a 

 Cha&aw is fick, he gives all he has in order to 

 be cured by them ; but if the patient dies, his 

 relations attribute his death to the phyfic, and 

 not to his indifpofition ; and can confequently kill 

 the doctor if they have a mind to do it" * ; how- 

 ever, this cafe fcarce ever happens, as they ge- 

 nerally have an excufe at hand. Thcfe dodors 

 are, hov/ever, acquainted with feveral excellent 

 plants for curing the difeafes common in their 



country ; 



* There are, likewife, people in France^ who lay the 

 death of their relations to the charge of the phyf.cian, and 

 refemble thii Indians very much in tteir thoughts on this 

 fubjeft. 



