BOURKE. ] THE PAY OF THE MEDICINE-MAN. 467 
i mezclados con el gumo, se lo daban & beber al muerto por la boca, i las narices, i 
Inego le preguntaban muchas veces, si el Medico guardd dieta, hasta que hablando 
el demonio, respondia tan claro, como si fuera vivo, i decia, que el Medico no higo 
dieta, i nego le bolvian 4 la sepultura. 
Then the relatives attacked the medicine-man: “I le daban tantos 
palos, que le quebraban los bragos, i las piernas, i 4 otros sacaban los 
ojos, i los cortaban sus miembros genitales.” ! 
Alexander the Great expressed his sorrow at the death of his friend 
Hephestion by crucifying the poor physicians who had attended the 
deceased.” 
The medicine-men of the Natchez were put to death when they failed 
to cure. 
The Apache attach as much importance to the necessity of “ laying 
the manes” of their dead as the Romans did. They have not localized 
the site of the future world as the Mohave have, but believe that the 
dead remain for a few days or nights in the neighborhood of the place 
where they departed from this life, and that they try to communicate 
with their living friends through the voice of the owl. If arelative hears 
this sound by night, or, as often happens, he imagines that he has 
seen the ghost itself, he hurries to the nearest medicine-man, relates his 
story, and carries out to the smallest detail the prescription of feast, 
singing, dancing, and other means of keeping the spirit in good humor 
on the journey which it will now undertake to the ‘ house of spirits,” 
the “ chidin-bi-kungua.” Nearly all medicine-men claim the power of 
going there at will, and not a few who are not medicine-men claim the 
same faculty. 
The medicine-men of the Apache are paid by each patient or by his 
friends at the time they are consulted. There is no such thing as a 
maintenance fund, no system of tithes, nor any other burden for their 
support, although I can recall having seen while among the Zuni one 
of the medicine-men who was making cane holders for the tobacco to 
be smoked at a coming festival, and whose fields were attended and 
his herds guarded by the other members of the tribe. 
Among the Eskimo “the priest receives fees beforehand.” 4 
“Tous ces sorciers ne réfusaient leurs secours 4 personne, pourvu 
qwon les payait.’”’® 
“Among other customs was that of those who came to be cured, giv- 
ing their bow and arrows, shoes, and beads to the Indians who accom- 
panied Vaca and his companions.”® (But we must remember that Vaca 
and his comrades traveled across the continent as medicine-men.) 
“Las sementeras que hacen los Assenais son tambien de comunidad 
! Hist. Gen., dec. 1, lib. 3, p. 69. 
2 Madden, Shrines and Sepulchres, vol. 1, p. 14. 
3 Gayarre, Louisiana; its Colonial History, p. 355. 
4 Spencer, Desc. Sociology. 
5 Balboa, Hist. du Pérou, Ternaux-Compans, vol. 15. 
6 Davis. Conq. of New Mexico, p. 86. 
