Bring the water here in your cap and wash my wound." Iroquois therapeutics were very simple, but wonderfully effective, and, as Robert had seen both Onondagas and Mohawks practice their healing art, he understood.

He discovered a good stream not many yards away, and carefully removing Tayoga's bandages, and bringing his cap filled to the brim with water, he cleansed the wound thoroughly.

Then the bandages were put on again firmly and securely.

This in most cases constituted the whole of the Iroquois treatment, so far as the physical body was concerned.

The wound must be kept absolutely clean and away from the air, nature doing the rest.