Ontario Sessional Papers, 1916, . riL-i Shaman Exorcising an Olci. of condiments, spices, or o])iates. ]h was not a salt user. The Southern, Mexicanand Central American tribes were able to distil alcohol from the maguey andfrom other plants, but the Canadian Indian liad not the material fr,om which hecould manufacture intoxicating li<inoi-. and, as a beneficent result, he was necessarilya sober man and protected from alcoholic disease. But the Canadian savage wasnot altogether immune to disease, to plagues and epidemics. John JosselyTi, inhis Account of Two Voyages to Xew England,
Ontario Sessional Papers, 1916, . riL-i Shaman Exorcising an Olci. of condiments, spices, or o])iates. ]h was not a salt user. The Southern, Mexicanand Central American tribes were able to distil alcohol from the maguey andfrom other plants, but the Canadian Indian liad not the material fr,om which hecould manufacture intoxicating li<inoi-. and, as a beneficent result, he was necessarilya sober man and protected from alcoholic disease. But the Canadian savage wasnot altogether immune to disease, to plagues and epidemics. John JosselyTi, inhis Account of Two Voyages to Xew England, writing (1674) of the maladiesto which the Indians of Xew England were subject, says: In Xew England theIndians an- afflicted with pestilent fever, jdagnes, consumption of lungs, falling *Even as late as 1884 tliere were livins on the Reservation, near Brantford, .reemen who were companions of the Mohawk, Joseph Brant (Thayendangea). One ofthese men, John Smoke Johnson, attained the age of 94. Jacob Warner was 93, andthe other, Jolm Tuteh
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