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and applied to the Breast until the flesh in a large circle rose into a hard crust[.]

All this time the sufferer as well as his companions on trial were hanging suspended from the beam of the Lodge by the cords through the incision in their Shoulders – their feet at some distance from the ground unable to Stir during the operation[.] The noise of the Spectators was very great – if the Sufferers complained, they could not be heard[.] As soon as each had undergone the pains – which he had imposed upon himself he was released from his elevated Station at the Beam and allowed to return from whence he came still dragging his original Equipage of Heads after him – until he placed the whole where he found them, and where fit persons were stationed on purpose to untie and receive them[.] When the wooden pins were taken out of the Shoulders – an old woman sucked the blood from the wounds – which she stuffed with a preparation made by her teeth from a certain root for the purpose[.] Then the suffering Hero or whatever we may choose to call him, took theis stripes of flesh and his finger joint placed them into a neat little bag with

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