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vulfes them. But we are not to believe that there 

 is any thing fupernatural in this, that juft after co- 

 ming out of thofe violent fweats they plunge into 

 coid water, and even fomctimes when it is frozen, 

 wiihout teeling the leafl inconvenience from it. 

 This is common to them, with all the other Indi- 

 ans, and even with other northern nations *. This 

 is an experiment, which fomewhat difconcerts the 

 fcience of phyfick, but in which the devil has cer- 

 tainly no manner of fliare. 



It is alfo certain, that their jugglers are too often 

 true in their predictions, to fuffer us to believe that 

 they divine at random, and that there pafs on 

 thofe occafions, things which it is almofl impofTible 

 to acccount for, in any natural way. And even 

 the very polls with which thefe (loves were fupport- 

 ed, have been feen to bend to the earth, whilft the 

 juggler remained motionlefs and without touching 

 them, and whilft he fweated and foretold what was to 

 happen. The letters of the ancient miffionaries are 

 filled with facts which leave no room to doubt, 

 that thefe fed ucers have a real compact with the Fa- 

 ther of deceit and lies. Several Frenchmen have 

 told me the fame thing, I fhall only quote one 

 pafTage which I have from the fountain-head. 



You have feen at Paris, Madame de Marfon, and 

 fhe is there flil! ; now this is what the Marquis de 

 Vaudreuil her fon-in-law and our prefent governor 

 told me this winter, and which he had from this 

 lady, who is far from being a perfon of a weak 

 mind. She was one day very uneafy about M. de 

 Marfon, her hufband who commanded at that time 



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* The poet Regnard afiures us, in his voyage to Lapponia, 

 that he has feen the fame thing done in Bothnia. 



