which had been our support for a long time; but in the evening we found all that he predicted, perfectly verified. This I assure you is a fact, & will maintain it notwithstanding every thing _skeptics_, (excuse the term) or those unacquainted, or but superficially so, with these people may say: & I am also certain that he had no previous knowledge of their being there; for there was plenty of snow, & there were no other tracks but those of these 2 hunters, & we had pitched _up_ (the river) that day. But, here I am digressing: to return therefore. (27) --I am altogether out of the regular track that I had proposed to myself at my first setting off; my time is to short, & my memory to bad, to read over the whole, so as to resume the regular course --the remainder shall be composed of _fugitive Pieces_. Indeed the nature of some of them being a _compound_ will not admit of their being treated of but in _sections_ if I may use the term. The first therefore, lest I have not time to _enter_ all, I shall speake of is _The Soul!_ This seems, to me, at least, a most extraordinary & incomprehensible thing-- yet from the different sources which I have received it, & the manner of relation serves but more & more to perplex. Whether it is really & absolutely the soul, or some other _principle_ on which the very existence depends I cannot say, but something it is lodged appa- rently in the Heart or breast, that on these occasions flies off & leaves them; & at the very instant of its exit it is perceived, & occasions such a derangement of the whole system, & particularly of the faculties as very soon to deprive the object of life; but primally a total want of sense, such as we suppose the Soul _endows_ us with. I shall here relate you one of the many stories of the kind verbatim as I received it. It was from an Indian of course. He told me that "one summer being on a visit "rather to a distant part of the country (perhaps 2 or 300 miles) he fell in with one "of his acquaintances, who (as often happens between strangers, particularly to "such as come from the Southward) asked to purchase _medecines_ of "him. I had but a small quantity, & only of 4 Sorts or kinds: he being "very anxious for them, I sold them _all_ to him: He was not satisfied--he must have more "tho' I positively assured him I had given him the last. Then he menaced me, & said "I should feel the effects of his resentment arising from my avarice & _uncharitable_ spirit. "Knowing his disposition, I returned to my friends, intending to be as far out of his "way as Possible. One night in the winter he conjured--I was fast "asleep (& several hundred miles off) & never thought more of him: but he called upon "his Familiars & demanded my Soul(!)--_it was taken_ to him; but just as it "was on the eve of entering his conjuring hut I perceived it & sprung from my bed "in the most dreadful agonies & convulsions insomuch that two men holding