166 AN ACCOUNT OF 
1783. applicable, was again given to thefe Chiefs, in whom it cer« 
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tainly produced great amazement. They examined the 
knives? and faws for amputation? with wonder; and pro* 
bably had their imaginations half overfet by the ideas? 
which all thefe objects? fo new and fo lingular? muft have 
parted in their minds.. 
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