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yet their Prieft is peculady ftyled their Phyfician, to 
beconfulted upon greater EtnergencieSi The Rules 
of the Defeenr hereof, as to Families, I do not know $ 
for they are a fulien elofe People, and will anfvver 
very few Queftiohs. 
4. They reward their Phyfician with ho cettain 
Fees, but according as they bargain for tVampam- 
peake Skins, or the like. If it be to an Englijhman 
they are fent for, they will agree for a Match- coat, 
a Gallon or two of Ruth, Or fo-forth, according 
to the Nature of the Cure. Sometimes the Prieft 
tvill fell his Remedy j for fome of them have told 
me, that they have bought the Root which cures the 
Bite of the Rattle-fnake from their JViochift. 
5. Their King allows no Salary, that ever I heard 
of ; but every one that in any l^ature can ferve his 
Prince, is ready to do it, and to do it gratis. 
6. They have no Confultations, their Praiftice be- 
ing merely empirical. They know little of the Na- 
ture or Reafon of Things. Ask them any Queftion 
about the Operation of a Remedy, and, if in good 
Humour, perhaps they will reply, It cures \ other- 
wife, they will fhrug their Shoulders, -and you may 
ask forty Queftions, and not know whethe-r they 
underhand either the Thing, or what it 4s that you 
fay to them. 
7. They pay a certain Deference of Honbpr to fh^ir 
Prieft or Wiochift, whofe Perfon they hold ,facred; 
but Laws they have none (as far as I could ever 
learn) that binds them thereto : In general, the Will 
of their Prince hands for Reafon and Law. . 
8. The Means whereby they convey their Art tp 
Pofterity, 1 take to be this; They lodge in their 
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