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cold at the end of this courfe, me declared (he 

 felt herlelf better. 



On the morrow, at funrife, they began, and by 

 her order too, a kind of Bacchanalian feftival, which 

 lafted three days. On the firft, all the people run 

 through the cabins, breaking and overturning every 

 thing, and, in proportion as the noife and hubbub 

 encreafed, the patient declared that her pains dimi- 

 nifhed. The other two days were fpent in running 

 over all the fires through which fhe had pafled, pro- 

 pofing her defires in enigmatical terms, which they 

 were obliged to divine, and to perform accordingly, 

 that inftant fome of thefe were obfeene even to a 

 horrible degree. The fourth day, the fick perfon 

 made, a fecond time, the tpur of all the cabbins, 

 but in a very different manner from the firft. She 

 was placed in the mid ft of two troops of Indians, 

 marching one after another, with a fad and lan- 

 guishing air, and obferving a profound filence. No 

 perfon was fuffered to be in her way, and thofe who 

 formed the vanguard of her efcort, cleared the road 

 of all they met. As foon as fhe entered any cabin 

 they made her fit down, and placed themfelves 

 round her fhe fighed, related with a moving ac- 

 cent, all her evils, and gave to underftand that her 

 being perfectly cured, depended on the accomplifh- 

 ment of fome wifh, which fhe kept to herfelf, and 

 which muft be divined. Every one did his beft 

 to interpret it, but this defire was very complex, 

 and confifted of a great number of particulars, fo 

 that in proportion as they hit upon one of them, 

 they were obliged to give her what fhe fought for, 

 fhe fcarce ever left any cabbin, till fhe had got all 

 it contained. 



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