As far as I can learn, every different root, herb, plant, mineral, spirit (or whatever you may please to term this latter) has each [its] respective songs. And [these] they must sing, were [their] voices like that of a choked pig, when [they] employ them for one of themselves, or [teach] them to another. When they sing, those of their _familiars_ who instructed this song, [whether] to the one who sings, as having learnt it from himself ([the] familiar) or having been handed to him, [the familiar] is said to attend, invisibly of course, and perform that which he promised this (medicine, supposing it is one) should effect. _{This is a long and complex job, and I doubt much if I can get through with it without more of my blundering. But I shall risk blunders, omissions, and repetitions.}_ Hence it is they always sing when they attend on a desperately sick person amongst themselves, though very rarely when they administer to the white. [Treatment of the Sick] When any one is very sick, and that they be _called upon_, or perhaps, though rarely ordered in their dreams by their familiars, they sing, blow and suck alternately and with such violence that one would think they wanted to to blow them to the d----l, or swallow them down their throats. But no, it is to force in the medicine of which they have generally a mouthful masticated into a pulp, or something near _salve_, sometimes. The suction business is to draw out the Devil: the medicine, bone, stone, iron, brass, stick, or whatever they imagine it is, that occasions the disease. If the complaint lies in any particular part, to that part it is they apply themselves most and sometimes _only_--supposing the hip [or] knee, for there they imagine it is a worm or maggot gnawing them. But if the complaint is universal, that is the whole system be sick and debilitated, it is then the pit of the stomach and the temples, rubbing sometimes the wrist, the palms of the hands and opposite the heart. This is very frequently done. And in the intervals the songs and rattler [are sung and played] together. {25} And often a short speech or prayer [is made] to that one of their _Familiars_ whom they think will be most propitious on the occasion, or _he_ from whom they hold such, or such instruction.