Beyond the West: containing an account of two years' travel in the other half of our great continent far beyond the old West, on the plains, in the Rocky mountains, and picturesque parks of Colorado. Also, characteristic features of New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho ... Oregon, Utah, Nevada, and ... California, the end of the West ... the great continental railroad, together with the ... most wonderful natural scenery in the world .../ by George W. Pine.

INDIAN TRIBES, CHARACTER AND HABITS. 267
conjured up and fabricated during many life times
of practice, and is the wildest and most fantastic
that can be imagined, in which he envelops himself
and makes his last visit to his dying patient, performing over and about him a numberless amount
of charms in a mysterious way. But it was the decree of the Great Spirit that his patient should die,
and it was beyond his mysterious efforts to save
him, although he was supposed to know everything
from the "Cedar of Lebanon to the hissop upon the
wall.'
To make a "medicine man" or doctor is very
much alike in most tribes, and to qualify him to be
a son of Esculapeus and practice his profession, he
must take the discipline of their medical college,
which is similar to some preachers in making a convert. A general camp meeting is held for several
nughts, during which ai e various performancds, such as
d ancing, hopping, screaching, incantations, extreme
bodily exercises and nervous excitement,, sufficient
to make many patients instead of a doctor. The
constitution of the native is a strong one, and is
capable of great physical endurance. Ultimately,
'however, one or more are overcome with superhu'
man power which enters into him at that time,
and instead of making him a saint, he is only
a superstitious or mysterious Indiati doctor. He
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