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steady people under any burden that I ever saw 

 in my life. At last, the conjurer makes an end, 

 and tells the patient's friends, whether the person 

 will live or die ; and then one that waits at 

 this ceremony, takes the blood away, which re- 

 mains in a lump, in the middle of the water, and 

 buries it in the ground, in a place unknown to 

 any one, but he that inters it. Now, I believe a 

 great deal of imposture in these fellows ; yet I 

 never knew their judgment fail, though I have 

 seen them give their opinion after this manner, 

 several times : Some affirm, that there is a smell 

 of brimstone in the cabins, when they are conju- 

 ring, which I cannot contradict, which way it may 

 come, I will not argue, but proceed to a relation 

 or two, which I have from a great many persons, 

 and some of them worthy of credit. 



The first is, of a certain Indian, that one rainy 

 night, underminded a house made of logs, such 

 as the Swedes in America very often make, and 

 are very strong, which belonged to Seth South- 

 well, Esq., governor of North Carolina, and one of 

 the proprietors. There was but one place the In* 

 dian could get in at, which was very narrow; 

 the rest was secured, by having barrels of pork 

 and other provisions set against the side of the 

 house, so that if this Indian had not exactly hit 

 the very place he underminded, it had been im- 

 possible for him to have got therein, because of 

 the full barrels that stood round the house, and 

 barricadoed it within. The Indian stole sixty or 



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