To evade this is a task that but few can succeed in. They must first Conjure to learn who it is that has bewitched them, then they inquire what is to be done: but here lies the difficulty.--Sometimes they are told they _must_ leave the appointed time run out: at others, such & such ceremonies, which is tantamount to the first answer; but at others again, it is easily dispelled--This depends (34) depends entirely upon the precautions the _bewitcher_ has taken, the Power, influence, or number of his Dreamed: as also on the other hand of the Dreamed, their, power, influence &c. of the _be- witched_. But sometimes on a very slight or trivial cause depends the whole.-- I shall tell you another story. An old Canadian I have now with me has been in the habit of _living-free_ for many years back. In the beginning of a winter he was tenting with some indians, & one of them an impertinent, bombastic sort of character was boasting to him of the great power & effect of some medicines & a drum he had lately received from a Sauteux &c. &c. "for some time I did not mind him, but "finding he became at last troublesome, & insinuating as plainly as he durst that "_he_ was now invulnerable, or rather immortal & that _we_ were helpless, a quarrel "ensued 'till at last I fxxt. upon your medicines & drum & the one also who gave "them to you said I. We seperated in no good freindship. At night he mad a feast & "invited me amongst the rest with the design of poisoning me; but his freinds remonstrated so ef- "fectually that he put this off & intended shooting me going out of the lodge; but this also "the others would not allow: he was vexed--I kept my eye upon him, determined I should "give the first blow on the least motion he might make. Finding himself prevented "in these he said that I indeed should kill 2 moose, but that the rest of the year I "should starve as a dog. I seperated next day with my wife & children--they were "under great apprehensions, but I mocked all their conjurings--I very shortly "killed 2 moose; but these indeed were the last. I walked & hunted every day-- "& seldom one day passed but I fired at the Buffaloe, moose, or some other animal, "but never got anything anything--I & my family were near dying with hunger, I "tried every thing in my power, never giving myself the least trouble about the indians "menaces. At last the spring arrived--Ducks & Geese came; but no better suc- "ess. At last one day prowling in my Canoe I met 2 other _free-men_, who, after mutual "inquiries &c. told me "the same thing had happened him & that an indian told him to file "off a small piece of the _muzzle_ of his Gun & wash it well with water in which _Sweet- "flag_ had been boiled, & killed after that as before." I laughed at the idea, but re- "flecting that it was an innocent experiment & I could not offend the almighty, I "tried, & the first animals I saw I immediately killed.--This Sir, continued