Ces gens a mon advis sont vrays Sorciers, 

 qui out accez au Diable . . . Le Diable leur 

 revele quelques secrets mats avec tant 

 d'obscuritez quon na garde de les arguer 

 de mensonge . . . C'est ainsi que le Diable 

 amuse ce pauvre peuple. 



And again: — II y a done quelque appar- 

 ence que le Diable leur tient la main par 

 fois, et s'ouvre a eux pour quelque profit 

 temporel, et pour leur damnation eternel. 



An age of credulity, it will be said: on 

 the other hand recollect how gladly these 

 educated gentlemen would have exposed 

 the medicine-men's pretensions, how reluc- 

 tant they must have been to admit the pres- 

 ence of dark inexplicable powers, contend- 

 ing with some success against the gospel 

 they were preaching with such tireless zeal, 

 at peril of their lives. 



The interventions of the medicine-man 



which T has observed were commonly 



with the object of enquiring whither the 

 band should direct itself for the winter 

 hunt — where game and fish and fur might 

 be secured most easily, with the least risk 

 of mishap. Questioned as to whether the 



predictions were fulfilled, T replied 



that frequently it had been so; adding, 



properly enough, that this might be due to 



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