ON THE TRANSMIGRATION OP SOULS. Q,Jl 



to be wrought upon in one particular, and appointed 

 a day for the deputies to return and receive his laffc 

 determination. They came back at the time he had 

 fixed. The hermit fhewed them three arrows which 

 he had made in their abfence ; and without imparting 

 to them any thing of his defign, he only told them to 

 examine well the arrows, that they might be fure to 

 know them again. 



In the evening, towards fun-fet, Shonnonkouiretli 

 went and lay in ambufcade on a little hill, at no great 

 diftance from the village. The bird flew out of a hol- 

 low tree at the coming on of the night ; and, making 

 his wings as ufual, diftinctly pronounced the names of 

 fome of the principal perfons whom he had doomed to 

 death on the morrow. No fooner did the hermit 

 perceive him, but he advanced foftly, let fly at him 

 one of his arrows, and then retired, affured that he had 

 fufficiently wounded him. 



The day following a rumour is fpread in the village, 

 that a certain young man, who lived alone in a poor 

 hut with an old woman his mother, was very ill. The 

 elders, attentive to all that palTed, fecretly ordered the 

 three deputies who had been with Shonnonkouiretli to 

 vifit him, as if without defign. The patient was too 

 much tormented by his malady to permit him to dif- 

 femble it ; he had an arrow that entered very far into 

 his fide. The arrow of the hermit was immediately 

 recognized. Private inftruclions had been given to 

 thofe who treated the patient ; and as they were at- 

 tending to their bulinefs, feemingly with a view to 



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