. Three travels throughout the interior parts of North-America for more then [sic] five thousand miles [microform] : containing an account of the Great Lakes, and all the lakes, islands, and rivers, cataracts, mountains, minerals, soil and vegetable productions ... : and a appendix describing the uncultivated parts of America, that are the most proper for forming settlements. Indians of North America; Biology; Zoology; Indiens; Biologie; Zoologie. ai6 CARVER'S fy, for he would engage that by the following his a(i- vice, he fliould be able in a few days to puifuc his journey, and in a
. Three travels throughout the interior parts of North-America for more then [sic] five thousand miles [microform] : containing an account of the Great Lakes, and all the lakes, islands, and rivers, cataracts, mountains, minerals, soil and vegetable productions ... : and a appendix describing the uncultivated parts of America, that are the most proper for forming settlements. Indians of North America; Biology; Zoology; Indiens; Biologie; Zoologie. ai6 CARVER'S fy, for he would engage that by the following his a(i- vice, he fliould be able in a few days to puifuc his journey, and in a little longer time be entirely free from his diforder. The chief had no fooner faid this than he prepared for him a deco£tion of the bark of the roots of the prickly aili, a tree fcarcely known in England, but which grows in great plenty throughout North-Amer- ica } by the ufe of which, in a few days he was great* ly recovered, and having received directions how to prepare it, in a fortnight after his departure from thii place, perceived that he was radically cured. If from exceffive exercifc, or the extremes of heat or cold, they are effeded with pains in their limbs or joints, they fcarify the parts aft'eClcd. Thofe nationi who have no commerce with Europeans do this v ith a (harp flint; and it is furprifing to fee, to how a fine a point they hi\ve the dexterity to bring them *, a lan- cet can fcarcely exceed in (harpnefs the inflrumenti they make of this onmalleable fubflance. They never can be convinced a perfon is ill, whilf^ he has an appetite ; but when he rejedis all kind of nourifhment, they confider the difeafe as dangerous, and pay great attention to it *, and during the continu- ance of the diforder, the phyfician refufes his patient no fort of food that he is deflrous of. Their do«Si;ors are not only fuppofed to be {killed in the phyfical treatment of difeafes •, but the common people believe that by thctceremony of the Chlchicouc ufually made ufe of, as befor
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