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at one Town called Gorgiana in the Province of Meyn 
(called alfo New-Sommerfct-fiire) they kill'd fourfcore. 
For Aches and Cold Swellings. 
Their Greafe is very good for Aches and Cold Swel- 
lings, the Indians anoint themfelves therewith from top 
to toe, which hardens them againft the cold weather. A 
black Bears Skin heretofore was worth forty millings, 
now you may have one for ten, much ufed by the EngliJJi 
for Beds and Coverlets, and by the Indians for Coats. 
For Pain and Lamenefs upon Cold. 
One Edw. Andrews being foxt, 1 and falling backward 
crofs a Thought 2 in a Shallop or Fifher-boat, and taking 
cold upon it, grew crooked, lame, and full of pain, was 
cured, lying one Winter upon Bears Skins newly fiead off, 
with fome upon him, fo that he fweat every night. 
The Wolf? 
The Wolf, of which there are two kinds; one with a 
round-ball'd Foot, and [15] are in fhape like mungrel 
1 Stupefied with drink. — Webster, Eng. Did. 
2 Thwart. 
3 "The woolves be in some respecT: different from them in other countries. It 
was never known yet that a wolf ever set upon a man or woman : neither do they 
trouble horses or cows ; but swine, goats, and red calves, which they take for 
deer, be often destroyed by them ; so that a red calf is cheaper than a black one, 
in that regard, in some places. . . . They be made much like a mungrel ; being 
big-boned, lank-paunched, deep-breasted ; having a thick neck and head, prick 
ears and long snout, with dangerous teeth; long, staring hair, and a great bush- 
tail. It is thought by many that our English mastiff might be too hard for them : 
