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to those taken upon Lake Superior at the Grand Portage. This Fish is of an oily substance and becomes rather disgusting, particularly as it is not always prepared and cooked with that delicacy which fish of every kind particularly demand. The Natives are remarkably filthy in dressing their food, and indeed in every other respect. Hence it is no wonder they are subject to cholics, pains in the stomach, and a looseness in the Belly. They know nothing of medicinal Roots or herbs, so that, except singing their sick Song, or rather humming one, biting, pulling with their Teeth and sucking the part of the body affected, they permit nature to take her course undisturbed by any internal prescription. When nigh the Whites' Establishment they always apply for some medicine which is always bestowed gratis such as we have in possession.

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