_coyness_; & 2 or 3 years after, I have positively not known them & could scarcely beleive my Eyes.----There is of another kind & which is very common, whose effects is an extraordinary _vacuation_ of blood, & in a few days would occa- sion death. A half breed I lately had with me, the Son of a man who many years ago was a servant of yours, being not of an extraordinary good moral character finding his sollicitations rejected with scorn became jealous & very anxious to revenge himself. He applied to an old indian, but in so cautious a manner that the indian gave him of the root without suspecting & told him how to use it. He pulverised it, & mingled it with a little vermillion & then watched his opportunity, which occurred I beleive, the ensuing morning. In our _out_- Posts we have no temples dedicated to Cloacinda, & besides, the females here are ashamed to _sacrifice_ at them: he therefore could not miss his opportunity--he wat- ched, & after she entered he went & soon found the place by the _Smoke_: here he sprinkled some of this Powder which he took in a quill, pronouncing "Let me see blood issue from the same place _this_ hath done--I want to see blood."--Scarcely five hours after, the woman who was married & of course so much the less bashful said "what is the matter with me, I have been just now out & want to go again." You may suppose her astonishment seeing the time of the natural return was scarcely half elapsed (31) but how much more so finding it issue far beyond anything she had ever known: This con- tinued 'til very late in the day & the beast was watching to see if it would answer. He went in to the house on pretence of a freindly visit, & remarked how _Pale_ she was--The mother told him "my daughter has been _bewitched_ & could you not do something to ease her?" He became extremely uneasy in his turn: he went out & passing by the place she went to he easily discovered notwithstanding her precaution of what dreadful conse- quences it would be if not timely attended to. He was afraid she would die before anything could be done. However he went to the old indian & speaking in a most sympathising strain, asked him if he could not administer something to stop that extraordinary issue. "Why! replied the old fellow--That root I gave you the other day is its own antidote--give her the length of her middle finger to _eat_ & it will stop quick enough." He did not chuse to tell the indian that it was this that had occasioned it lest he should be punished by him in his turn; but artfully con- ducting his discourse got more from him, administered it to the woman, mutter- ing in himself "Let this blood cease, I have seen enough of it"--& she was soon healed! I done all I could to make him confess it, without coming to the point; but he never would: he satisfied himself by assuring me with the most solemn assererations that it was the case; "& if you doubt it, continued he, you may