When I was a small boy, he took me into the bush to train me to be a doctor.

He placed two large quartz-crystals against my breast, and they vanished into me.

I do not know how they went, but I felt them going through me like warmth.

This was to make me clever, and able to bring things up." (This refers to the medicine-man's custom of bringing up into the mouth, as if from the stomach, the quartz-crystal in which his "virtue" has its chief material embodiment or symbol; being likewise useful, as we see later on, for hypnotizing purposes.) "He also gave me some things like quartz-crystals in water.

They looked like ice, and the water tasted sweet.