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antiSl&fcenturega bag containing numerous small papers, inwhich I found lumps of white sugar, grains ofcoffee, pepper, allspice, cloves, tea, nutmegs,ginger and other things of this kind, sold asspecifics against evil spirits, and against thedangers of battle; as giving power over enemies,and particularly the white bear, 76 of which theIndians in these latitudes are much afraid:others were infallible against barrenness inwomen; against difficult labors; and againsta variety of other afflictions. In a secondparcel I found small prints; the identical oneswhich in England are commonly sold in sheetsto children, but each of which was here transformedinto a talisman, for the cure of someevil, or obtention of some delight: No. i. "Asailor kissing his mistress, on his return fromsea"; this, worn about the person of a gallant,attracted, though concealed, the affections ofthe sex! No. 2. "A soldier in Arms"; thispoured a sentiment of valor into the possessor,and gave him the strength of a giant!76Apparently the grizzly bear. Although TheodoreRoosevelt has rather made light of the danger of huntingthe grizzly, to meet him with a modern high-powerrifle is a different matter than it was to meet him withthe inferior weapons possessed by the natives a centuryor more ago. Moreover, the grizzly himself has learnedsomething by his hundred years of contact with thewhite man, and is, apparently, a far less pugnaciousanimal than he was in former times. Lewis and Clark,dauntless seekers of adventure as they were, found thegrizzly a foe to be dreaded; "I must confess," recordsLewis, "that I ido not like the gentlemen, and had315