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will not go until he had received a valuable present. - They have some good medicines; but they seldom use them with good effect; in fact, they seem to place but little confidence in medicaments - relying principally on the potent influence of charms and incantations. If the immediate cause of the sickness in not known, it is at once ascribed to some supernatural influence, as a penalty for the violation of some rule or superstitions. Under such circumstances, the plain indication would be to apply a counteracting influence; and he endeavors to frighten the disease away; "and" adds Mr Pond, "if diseases could be frightened, he would surely succeed." - He stands over the patient, and shakes a large rattle-box, - making at the same time the most discordant noises of which the human voice is susceptible, accompanied by the most unnatural & disgusting contortions of body. If the patient recovers, the medicine man get the credit of healing him; - if he Dies, some evil spirit has to bear the blame.

In disposing of their dead, they appear solicitous to preserve the corpses from wild beasts. The dead are placed by their friends on scaffolds or trees out of the reach of wolves, where they are sometimes left to be consumed