he holds a small spark of fire _near_ it--it immediately _explodes_ & that part of the leather on which _it_ was becomes burnt & shrivelled: when he performs this, he generally utters words like these "Let the Heart of _such a one_ become like this Leather, let it shrivel & die within him"! If it is a leg, an arm, the head, or any other particular part, or parts, or even the whole body, it is the same, & the words also; unless he doth not wish for the death; then he will say "Let "_such a part_, become lame, useless, ulcerous" &c. &c. according to his disposi- tion; & that part, or parts become thus affected according to his wish, "But "how is it possible that such things can be? Do you really think that an insig- "nificant root, of no apparant power or virtue whatever can effect such things?" Thus I would frequently question, & their answers with little variations uni- "versally the same." Yes, most certainly it is not the root alone, but with the assistance "of that one of his Dreamed that is most powerful & most fond of him: he! you white people "you know not; you are consummately ignorant of the Power of our Great medecine men "many things might I tell you much more surprising--but you do not believe these trifles, "how much less then those you do not know?"--What then is to be done! how do with (30) what say to a people so blind, so infatuated! They have some roots that are dreadful in their effects--Being a female, I think I should prefer immediate death. They have some that have the same effects as _Lunar Caustic_. They use them thus. During the time of their "Seperation" (i.e menstruation) they endeavour to give them to smoke, which is never refused--there is some of this root mixed with the Tobacco. Once smoking is sufficient --a few months after their complexion begins to change--& at last becomes of a _nasty_ black with abundance of hair growing out of the face; & if these women were to shave, I verily believe their beards would become as bushy & thick as those of any man whatever. In performing this, they must also utter words thus: "Let the "one for whom I intend this, & who shall smoke of it become black & hairy; & be- "come as ugly & rejected as she is now fair & searched for"! Sometimes they mingle it with their food or the liquor they drink: there is more than one kind of this dreadful root; one of which I was shewn, but have forgotten, there being 2 or 3 others resembling it.--it is like many others a perennial herb, & hath some resemblance to the long or tall Thistle. To return. When the subject, or object, discovers that she hath been thus dealt with, which they sometimes do a few weeks after, they may be restored, for there is an _antidote_ to it; but I have never known one instance of this, tho' a dozen of the others I have. Some handsome, fair complexioned young females refusing the importunate solli- citations of an abandoned, vicious, revengeful wretch, becomes the victim of her