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drink. Little-Centaury y red, white, and yellow, ^c. 
However, I never could find above 12 or 14. Plants,, 
which were Natives of that Country, that agreed 
perfedly with any of our European Plants, but what 
had fome notable Differences, if they were not rather 
to be reckoned a diftind Genus. 
13. There go Traditions of their having an Art 
to poifon their Darts but I could never find any 
folid Grounds for that Report. I have obferved, that 
in thofe Countries, upon an ill Habit of Body, the 
leaft Scratch is dangerous ; and that, for all the Care 
that can be taken to prevent it, it often- turns into 
a very defperate ulcerous Sore. Some Herbs there 
are of an analogous Nature with Hemlocky whereof, 
I think, they know nothing further, than that they 
are to avoid them 5 but any Herbs, wherewith they 
poifon their Darts, 1 never could hear fpecified. And 
as Perfons engaged in long. Marches are liable to 
many Accidents, which may contribute to an ill 
State of Health, when a flight Wound in Battle has 
then proved mortal; this I apprehend to have been 
the Caufe, why the Phyfician has rather chofcn to 
attribute the Death of his Patient to the Poifon of 
the Dart, than the want of Skill in himfelf, 
14. As to their Morals, they are fimple and cre- 
dulous, rather honeft than otherwife, and unpradifed 
in the European Art of Lying and Diffimulation ; 
but as to the brutal Paflions, they are fottilh and fen- 
fual as the Beafts of the Field. 
I j . They are almoft always either eating or fleep- 
ing, unlefs when they go a hunting : At all Hours 
of the Night, whenever they awake, they go to the 
Homing-pot y that is. Maze dreffed in, a manner like 
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