Volume 1

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no CROOKED LEGS* YOUNG WIFE IS HERSELF AGAIN.
trampling of my horse, he fired for a joke, and pretended to
The fellow would have paid dear for his joke, had my
hide.
gun been loaded.
Oct. 3d. Indians away hunting. One of my men was
very ill with a colic. I gave him some essence of peppermint,
but it did not cure him ;
soon after gave him some
sweet oil, which he threw up he was in great pain. I
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gave him a dose of jalap, which he soon threw up, and his
pain increased. I then gave him an extraordinary dose of
Glauber's salts, which, after some time, took its course, but
did not appear to relieve him much. Charlo decamped
on the E. side Avith his family, in search of beavers. The
Indians killed two bears and some wild fowl. They are
troublesome and peevish, and wish I would give them some
cause to leave me. They are certainly in a chronic state
of alarm, and always representing to me the danger of
their situation.
Oct. 4th. My man still very sick. I gave him an emetic,
as he complained of an inclination to vomit ; it operated
well, and I was surprised to see what a quantity of bile and
other foul matter he threw up.
The wounded woman complained
most bitterly. Her old husband has the principal
management of
her wounds, which he dresses morning and
evening with a mixture of roots and barks, whilst she takes
inwardly a decoction of the same kind. At every dressing
she vents her spleen in imprecations on the old man, whilst
he, foolishly attached to her, receives
her censure with the
greatest submission, and even with tears in his eyes, telling
her to take courage and live. She anwers his tender advice
with, " Get out, you old dog ! If I live, it will be the worse
for you." It is really a farce to see them.
I found to-day, in the kidney of a bull, a small solid substance
of the size and shape of a bean, and as hard as a
pebble [renal calculus]. On breaking it open, it showed
shining particles of the nature of stone. I had often
abstracted the same substance from the kidneys of bulls,
like a bean, but some perfectly round.