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Australian Weapons.
Polynesian War Canoe.
PART VIII.
SAVAGE M.D.’s.
CHAPTER XX.
Polynesian Surgeons—Figian treatment—A shipwrecked Figian—
Samoan Priests and Doctors—Samoan physics—Polynesian
Disease-makers—Namaquan cruelty—Left to die—Savage
arithmetic—Bartering for Sheep—The Abiadiongs—A Pawnee
M.D.—An Indian Sawbones—A medicine dance—An Indian
vapour bath—Cupping three Queens—What is expected of a
Physician—Hints to Travellers in the East—Stimulants to be
avoided in the East—Cold water bathing in Nubia.