cvi A GENERAL HISTORY
February - Kichi Pifhim - = = Big Moon; fome fay, Old

Moon.
March - Mickyfue Pifhim - - Eagle Moon.
April - Nifcaw o Pifhim - - Goofe-Moon.

Thefe people know the medicinal virtues of many herbs and fimples,
and apply the roots of plants and the bark of trees with fuccefs. But
the conjurers, who monopolize the medical fcience, find it neceflary
to blend myftery with their art, and do not communicate their know-
ledge. Their materia medica they adminifter in the form of purges
and: clyflers; but the remedies and furgical operations are fuppofed to
derive much of their effect from magic and incantation. When a.blifter
rifes in the foot from the froft, the chafling of the fhoe, &c. they im-
mediately open. it, and apply the heated blade-of a knife to. the part,
which, painful as it may be, is found to be efficacious. A fharp flint
ferves them as a lancet for letting blood, as well as for fearification in
bruifes and fwellings. For fprains, the dung of an animal joft killed is .
confidered as the beftremedy. They are very fond of European medi-
cines, though they are ignorant of their application: and thofe articles.
form a confiderable part of the European traffic with them.

Among their various fuperftitions, they believe that the vapour which
is feen to hover over moift and {wampy places, is the fpirit of fome perfon
lately dead. They alfo fancy another fpirit which appears, in the fhape
ofa man, upon the trees near the lodge of a perfon deceafed, whofe pro-
perty has not been interred with them. He is reprefented as bearing a
gun in his hand, and it is believed'that he does not return to his reft, till the
property that has been withheld from the grave has been facrificed to it.

Examples: