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night Perrot was waked by chiefs who came for more theriac. 

 His supply was so small that he only allowed them to hold their 

 noses over the vial. The odor, however, proved a panacea. They 

 beat their breasts and declared that it had made them immortal. 

 For this sanitary smell they insisted on paying Perrot ten beaver- 

 skins. They believed, what no doctor has been able to beat into 

 Christian patients, that no medicine could do any good if it was 

 not paid for. 



These patients were Miamis. The Sauks, on the other hand, 

 thought no medicine efficacious unless it was bestowed without 

 money and without price. One of their tribe who had been badly 

 scalded, declared himself cured the moment he was presented 

 with a gratuitous plug of tobacco. 



Eelish for the romantic was a considerable element even in mis- 

 sionary zeal. Thus Hennepin admits that a passion for travel and 

 a burning desire to visit strange lands had no small part in his 

 own inclination for missions. 



Again, many early bush-rangers belonged to that class who 

 would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven. La Salle fell ia 

 with one tribe in mourning for tthe death of a chief, and he said : 

 "Dry your tears ! I will raise him from the dead. Whatever he 

 was to wife, children or tribe, that I will be, feeding them and 

 fighting for them. He is dead no longer." Thereupon he was 

 hailed as chief. 



Still others dashed among distant cannibals, in hopes, like Brig- 

 ham Young among Mormons, to become Gods on earth. It paid 

 for all privations to hear cringing Calibans cry out : " We pray 

 thee be ou-r God ! We'll fish for thee ; we'll kiss thy foot." 



Saint Castine, who had. nothing saintly but the name, roaming 

 with Indians not far from the seaport in Maine which keeps [his 

 name in memory, gained such a supremacy that his aboriginal as- 

 sociates deemed him the prince of the power of the air. 



In 1683, Perrot having built a fort near the outlet of Lake 

 Pepin, paid a visit to the Sioux up the great river. He was 

 placed by them on their car of state, which was a buffalo robe. 

 He was thus lifted on high by a score of warriors, not like Sancho 

 Panza tossed in a blanket, but borne as reverentially as the Pope 



