500 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
drawing made of the same character on this reservation by one of our best educated 
Indian boys. His description of it is as follows: ‘‘When I was at Dr. Charley’s 
house (the shaman or medicine man), they tamahnoused [performed incantations ] over 
{my brother] Frank. They saw that he was under a kind of sickness. Dr. Charley 
took it, and just a little after that Frank shook and became stiff, and while I sat I 
heard my father say that his breath was gone. I went out, as I did not want to see 
my brother lay dead before me. When I came back he was breathing a little and 
his eyes were closed. Dr. Charley was taking care of his breath with his own 
tamahnous [guardian spirit] and waiting for more folks to come, so as to have 
enough folks to beat on sticks when he should tamahnous and see what was the 
matter with Frank. So he went on and saw that there was another kind of sickness 
besides the one he took first. The other one went over Frank and almost killed him. 
Dr. Charley took it again and went (travel) [in spirit] with another kind of tamah- 
nous to see where Frank’s spirit was. He found him at Humahuma [18 or 20 miles 
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distant], where they had camped [some time previous]. So Frank got better after 
a hard tamahnous. From the drawing you will see how Dr. Charley tixed the kind 
of sickness. > shows the first sickness which Dr. Charley took. It has tails, 
which, when they come close to the sick person, makes him worse. a is the way it 
goes when it kills a person and stays in his home. c is the second one and is hang- 
ing over Frank, d. eis another sickness which is in Frank.” 
In Kingsborough (@) is the following: “Inthe year of Eleven Houses, 
or in 1529, Nuno de Guzman set out for Yalisco on his march to subdue 
that territory. They pretend that a serpent descended from the sky, 
exclaiming that troubles were preparing for the natives, since the 
Christians were directing their course hither.” The illustration for this 
account is presented as Fig, 1224, Chap. xx, on Special Comparisons. 
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