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There is another set of Indians whose customs are very different.
They refuse to put any live animal to death, they sow no corn, and
have no dwelling-houses. Vegetables are their only food. There is a
plant which grows wild in their country, bearing seed, about the size
of millet-seed, in a calyx: their wont is to gather this seed and
having boiled it, calyx and all, to use it for food. If one of them
is attacked with sickness, he goes forth into the wilderness, and lies
down to die; no one has the least concern either for the sick or for
the dead.
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