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Juggler proves them afterwards : He begins by making his Lips 

 bleed, he applies his Remedy; the Blood, which the Impoflor 

 tak?s Care to fuck in dexterouily, ceafes to ran, and they cry 

 out a Miracle / After this he takes a dead Animal, he gives 

 the Company Time enough to be well affured that he is dead, 

 then by the Means of a Pipe which he has thruft under the Tail, 

 he caufes it to move, in blowing fome Herbs into its Mouth, and 

 their Cries of Admiration are redoubled, Laftly, all the Troop 

 of Jugglers go round the Cabins finging the Virtue of their Me- 

 dicines. Thefe Artifices at the Bottom do not impofe on any 

 one ; but they amufe the Multitude, and Cuilom muft he fol- 

 lowed. 



There is another Cuflom peculiar to the Miamis, and perhaps 

 o . J to fome Nations in the Neighbourhood of 

 cT^^L of th ^^^f)^^^^- ^ thefe Particulars from a French-^ 

 Imainis to tre ^ Witnefs of them. After a 



S i? pre- folemnFeaft, they placed, faid he, on a Kind 

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the Heads of which were painted green. Ail 

 the Savages pafTed this Alt^ir bowing their Knees, and the Jug- 

 glers lead the Van, holding in their Hands a Sack which con- 

 tained all the Things which they ufe in their Conjurations. 

 They all ftrove to exceed each other in their Contoriions, and 

 as any one diftinguilhed himfelf in this Way, they applauded 

 him with great Shouts. When they had thus paid their firit 

 Homage to the Idol, all the People danced in much Confufion, 

 to the Sound of a Drum and a Chkhiccue ; and during this Time 

 the Jugglers made a Shew of bewitching fome of the Savages, v/ho 

 feemed ready to expire : Then putting a certain Powder upori 

 their Lips, they made them recover. When this Farce had 

 lafted fome Time, he who prefided at the Feaft, having at his 

 Sides two Men and two Women, run through all the Cabins tô 

 give the Savages Notice that the Sacrifices v/ere going to begin. 

 When he met any one in his Way, he put both his Hands 

 on his^Head, and the Perfon met embraced his Knees. The Vic- 

 .tims were to be Dogs, and one heard on every Side the Crieç 

 of thefe Animals, whofe Throats they cut; and the Savages, 

 -who howled with all their Strength, feemed to imitate their Cries* 

 As foon as the Flefh was drelTed, they offered it to the Idols ; 

 then they eat it, and burnt the Bones. All this while the Juggler! 

 nev^r ceafed raifing the pretended dead, and the whole ended by 

 the Dklribution that was made to thefe Quacks, of whatever wai 

 found moft ÇO their Liking in all the ^Vilfage. 



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