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Rh cially if they are in a bad State of Health, pretending they have the Power to create new Souls in them, provided they pay them well for it, which the ignorant Fools are very willing to do. They precribe to all Rules of Conduct and Behaviour in different Caes, which Rules none dare reuse to live up to with the greatet Exactnes imaginable; as, for Example, if any dies in a Houe, thoe of the Houe cannot, for a et Time, do all orts of Work; epecially the Relations of the Deceaed are obliged to abtain, not only from certain Works, but likewie from certain Victuals.

If a Patient be under the Hands of an Angekkok, he mut live by Rule, which they are accutomed to oberve o exactly, that even when we have aited many of them with our Medicaments, they have always demanded what ort of Diet they were to keep. Women in Childbed are to abtain from working, and from certain Victuals, viz. Fleh Meat, which their own Hubands have not taken, or that of a Deer, whoe Entrails