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66 and after playing for about half an hour, on a balee, a fort of intrument coniting of a tube made of the hell of a pumbkin, and connected with two mall reeds, through which the founds pas from the tube applied to the mouth, he has deired ome peron in the crowd to take off the cloth, and the ame branch, to the urprie of every beholder, appeared laden with fruit and blooms. It would be endles to decribe their other deceptions, which are equally unaccountable as wonderful. Their incantation of nakes, in particular, has been attributed by many of your countrymen, to magic and the power of the devil. Their hooded nakes, as they call them, are (brought from place to place incloe bakets, which are