z MEDICINE MAN. 61. 
either from indolence or inefficiency law is comparatively 
a dead letter among them. 
In the space of six weeks, this season, no less than five 
murders were committed, and yet we met two of the crimi- 
nals at large and taken by the hand as usual. 
The stringent law ‘against the introduction of whiskey 
may occasionally be enforced, but when it is, it is because 
the facts are too palpable to allow of any escape. 
The Bible, and the missionary, have failed to eradicate 
their veneration for and superstitious belief in the medicine 
man. : 
At different points on our road we were witnesses to 
the absurd pow-wow and paigslons incantation of these” 
swindlers. . 
Near the hut where lies the patient, they erect a pole, 
from the top of which flaunts gay ribbons and pieces of gay 
cloth. At the foot of the pole stands a frame, to which is 
attached a bale of muslin or woolen cloth, ribbons, &c., 
and the door ef the hut is festooned with ribbons and 
colored cloth. — ; 
The mighty medicine man goes through with his mum- 
meries, and leaves, taking the precaution to take with him, 
as perquisites, all the cloth, ribbons, &c., which have been 
used, and according to his wants, of muslin, woolen or rib- 
bon, so will be the quantity required, and the quality of 
these infallible antidotes to the disease to be cured. What 
a commentary upon a peaple : oe all the advantages of 
