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Excerpt from Pomo Bear DoctorsIn the second place, the power of the doctor was thought to reside wholly in his bearskin suit, or parts thereof, and apparently was considered the result of an elaborate ceremony performed in its manu facture and subsequent donning. This distinctly ritualistic side of the bear doctor's practices removes him still more clearly from the class of the true shaman.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds ...

Excerpt from The Dream Dance of the Chippewa and Menominee Indians of Northern WisconsinThe relations existing between the Chippewa and certain other tribes belonging to the great Algonquin linguistic stock appear to have always been very cordial. With the Ottawa and Potawatomi especially their relations were intimate, apparently by virtue of the fact that these three tribes all sprang originally from the same source, as nearly as can be gathe...

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Excerpt from The Life of the Rev. John Hewgill Bumby, Who Was Drowned in the River Thames, New-Zealand, June 26th, 1840: With a Brief History of the Commencement and Progress of the Wesleyan Mission of That CountryAlthough the interest of the personal narra tive may have lost something by delay, yet as the writer has been enabled, now a dozen years have elapsed, to trace to a very successful issue that great work in Which the deceased lost his...

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Excerpt from The Boatman's Daughter: A Narrative for the Learned and Unlearned Tms volume is the production of a Wesleyan minister of England. In a brief space of time it has attained a high reputation, having been ranked by review ers with The Dairyman's Daughter. In the slight abridgment which has been made, in order to adapt the work more specifically to American readers, no part. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of...

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Excerpt from The Ministry and Polity of the Christian Church: Viewed in Their Scriptural and Theological Aspects and in Relation to Principles Professed by the Wesleyan MethodistsThese pages are not written with any desire to place the subject of Wesleyan economy obtrusively before the public. The writer would gladly have spent his spare and treasured moments in thinking on subjects more congenial to his taste, just as the people of his own co...

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Excerpt from Essay on the Pastoral Office as a Divine Institution in the Church of Christ: Containing a Particular Reference to the Manner in Which It Is Exercised Amongst the Wesleyan Methodists The subject of the following Essay has occupied, at various intervals, the meditative hours of the Author for some time past, though amid the numerous and onerous duties of the Wesleyan ministry. There was no intention originally, on his part, of giv...

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Excerpt from Pomo Bear DoctorsIn the second place, the power of the doctor was thought to reside wholly in his bearskin suit, or parts thereof, and apparently was considered the result of an elaborate ceremony performed in its manu facture and subsequent donning. This distinctly ritualistic side of the bear doctor's practices removes him still more clearly from the class of the true shaman.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds ...

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