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me warm, and some powder and shot to kill deer 

 withal, I will do my best to make you well still. 

 The man was low in courage and pocket too, and 

 made the Indian this reply : Jack, my distemper 

 is past cure, and if our English doctors cannot cure 

 it I am sure the Indians cannot. But his wife 

 accosted her husband in very mild terms, and 

 told him, he did not know but God might be 

 pleased to give a blessing to that Indian's under- 

 taking more than he had done to the English ; 

 and further added, if you die I cannot be much 

 more miserable, by giving this small matter to 

 the Indian ; so I pray you, my dear, take my ad- 

 vice, and try him to which, by her persuasions, 

 he consented. After the bargain was concluded, 

 the Indian went into the woods and brought in 

 both herbs and roots, of which he made a decoc- 

 tion, and gave it the man to drink, and bade him 

 go to bed, saying, it should not be long before 

 he came again, which ' the patient performed as 

 he had ordered ; and the potion he had adminis- 

 tered made him sweat after the most violent 

 manner that ocmld be, whereby he smelled very 

 offensively both to himself, and they that were 

 about him ; but in the evening, towards night, 

 Jack came, with a great rattle snake in his hand 

 alive, which frightened the people almost out of 

 their senses ; and he told his patient that he must 

 take that to bed to him ; at which the man was 

 in a great consternation, and told the Indian he 



