"charges they became extremely confused & vexed: a quarrel ensued; but my comrades exult- "ingly told them 'we can turn & twist you _now_ about our fingers as we please.' And they (33) "they did too. For the women both _giving suck_ at that time, thought it was their children "that were handling them, as they used but _one_ finger, & gently." The other story is thus: --A man that I have with me at present in consequence of some _slips_ of his _Rib_ had fre- "quent, & some severe quarrels with her--she began to hate him & wanted to go with her "_Par-amour_: the husband tho' vexed & confused _did not want_ to lose her: he began by "soothing, coaxing, & caressing her, but she always bawled out as loud as she could that "every body might hear, tho' it were at midnight 'thou white dog, leave me alone "'why art thou fumbling at me?" The more she became averse the more he coaxed "& she bawling out 'dont _slabber_ me' every time he attempted to kiss her,--& "she was watching a fair opportunity to slip off to her lover (an indian). At last he lodged "his complaints to me, & asked if I could not _assist_ him. I gave him some of this _mede_- "cine with the usual directions & told him as soon as he had executed all properly "to come away & leave her, & not return to her for a couple of days so that in her "turn she might suffer. He had not long left her 'till she called for him as if want- "ing something & like a Goose he went immediately, tho' I done all I could to make "him pay her in her own coin.--Since that time they live as you see them. "_But_ if you doubt of this also, you can easily make the experiment--chuse any "one you please, & let her be ever so coy, & shy, you will bring her as you want"!!! --Shortly after this I made some general enquiries of the man latterly in question, but he would not avow, tho' from his confusion & precipitancy with which he an- swered, I beleive there is _something_ in the business. "It is with this medecine con- "tinued the half breed, that the young men do completely & universally succeed "with all the women that please them." With this also, principally, they succeed in bewitching any one they are averse to, & prevent them from killing such animals as they please. They draw the likeness of the animal or animals, they do not chuse the others to kill, put of this medicine (tho' most commonly mixed with some others in this latter case) upon the hearts & desire that they may become shy & fly off upon any the least appearance or approach of them. Or, they will _conjure_ & desire some of their _familiars_, one, or several, to _haunt such a one_ in all his motions & scare & frighten off, & _render wise_ any _such & such_ animals; & let the distance be hundreds of miles off--their familiars that are spirits residing in the air, & transport themselves in an instant to any place they place, & who see all that is going on _below_, keep _all_ away accordingly.