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Long ago the Indians were afflicted with some very awful diseases which do not now prevail. One of these different from the small pox, or your yet unclear dreadful sores in the flesh. When any one in a family was taken with that disorder, the diseased person was taken away, & had a house or camp built at a distance from any other house, and lived alone. Then the priest was sent for to cleanse the house just as if some person had died in it. After this

It was an angel sent from God. He told them they had sinned, & therefore could not conquer their enemies. -- that though they had fasted long enough, and provision hsd been making for their relief -- and the rushing noise they heard above, was help coming down, and the people they said had been ordered to help them, yet now on unclear of the sin of that man? they would not have relief, but might go back, or down the mountain. This angel went half down with them and then forsook them. On coming down, they condemned the man to die, but notwithstanding, they never have been assisted since, as they had been before, in conquering their enemies. T. Smith.