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                                              Small pox
This disorder was supposed to be inflicted by a kind of spiritual beings, resembling people only the female was about the colour of a chestnut burr, and covered with such

kind of prickles. On touching any person therefore she occasioned those find pimples which first appeared in that disease. The male was s aid to be the colour of poke berries when ripe, and by giving the person another touch occasioned that black eye appearance of the pustiles when about to mortify. These people, it was said never slept except for a short time about midnight. Therefore when any would flee from them they must start at that time, and afterward should they want ?hrovision?, or anything from their houses, they must return at that time of night, observing the most profound stillness. And as these people always walked in the large, plain paths, the Cherokees, in avoiding them walked out of the road in the woods. None, however, must talk against them, nor seem to be afraid of them.