Now was the chance to find out whatever was the matter with him! On my next visit to his office he received me with a queer, hesitating expression on his face, and suddenly blurted out, "Can you cut out trousers ?" For some time he had had a piece of cloth in his house, and he said he would pay me well if I could help him to have it made into trousers.

To cure people, mend watches, repair sewing-machines, make applejack, do tailoring, prognosticate the weather--everything is expected from a man who comes from far away.

And the good people here are astonished at a confession of ignorance of such matters, and take it rather personally as a lack of good-will toward them.

It is the old belief in the medicine man that still survives in the minds of the people, and they therefore look upon doctors with much greater respect than on other persons.
People who live outside of civilisation are thrown upon their own resources in cases of sickness.

The daughter of my Mexican guide was confined and the coming of the afterbirth was delayed.