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small-pox, witli this only difTerence, that tlie 

 leamod tiiitliov usoil a trioro elo<jant instrument, 

 a golden neudlc ! and even in the present day 

 the same practice is appmv^ of by the l>egi 

 writa» m ik& tdhjixL The mew method of 

 treatment was attended with hajjpier results 

 than the old, only one out of six dying of the 

 malady ; and if, continues Dr. Mair, instead 

 of aa^rely relinquishing the cold-bath, it liad 

 still been employed with Jtidi^dfas caution, the 

 mortality might have been furth^ ICeduced. 



The kradjeo, priest, sooth snyer, or physician, 

 (for he appears to exercise the functions of each,) 

 goes through many superstitious ceremonies 

 to cure his pa<a^, ndtii rods of twe? m three 

 yards ia leag^, wMch he fixes in the earth 

 in a creacentic form, and luldresses with a 

 variety of gestures. The coinnum peojjle jdaee 

 implicit faith in his predictions ; and it is 

 assieil^d hjr Clark, thai they soi^t^xODtii hury 

 ^*ve those whom in his mBdical ca|^$«% hie 

 has abandoned. They believt ike disease to 

 be infectious, but do not shun one nnother 

 on that account i they name it BouloL" 

 The Lachlan md Wellk^n ^al% tiibes eall 

 it Tkmn^, thimiia ; and Br^ Mait fi3s6 says 

 fhai he heard a most lugubrious Mrjgb diriunted 

 at a Corrobera at Batliurst, commemorative of 



