When we got there our clothes were pretty well saturated with bear's oil, and we jokingly said it must have soaked through our bodies, we had eaten so much bear meat.

I began to feel quite sick, and had a bad headache.

I felt as if something must be done, but we had no medicine.

Mr.Buck went down by the creek and dug some roots he called Indian Physic, then steeped them until the infusion seemed as black as molasses, and, when cool told me to take a swallow every fifteen minutes for an hour, then half as much for another hour as long as I could keep it down.

I followed directions and vomited freely and for a long time, but felt better afterward, and soon got well.