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In thefe baths they boil dll forts of medicinal 

 and odoriferous herbs, whofe eflences and falts 

 rifing with the fceam of the water, enter into 

 the body of the iifflided perfon, and reftores his 

 loll forces. This remedy is equally good for 

 abating and deiliroying all kinds of pains ; of 

 courfe you fee no Indian afTeded with the gout, 

 the gravel, and other diftempers which we are 

 fubjed to in Europe j but this may likewife be 

 attributed to their frequent bodily exercifes. 

 Yoa fee no great Dutch bellies there, nor any 

 great tumours under the chin, fuch as the Pied- 

 montefe wens. 



The Chaftaws put a firm belief in enchanters 

 and magicians, and when they meet with one 

 fuch pretended forcerer, they cut off his head 

 * without any ceremony. 



1 faw an Indian of the nation of Chacfaws^ 

 -who had lately been baptized : as he had no 



luck 



Jniddle of the villages ; they are kept in order by an Aiexij 

 or public doclor. 



* In 1752,' when I wasat Mohihi I few an Indian vvhoni 

 t^e others killed with "a hatchet, becaufe he pretended to be 

 a forcerer. The other Indians attributed to him all Sh«r 

 wisfortunes that happen to their nation. 



