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not far off. It was towards dark, I
went to see and noticed a young man
lying on the ground as if lifeless, when
I enquired, whether he was dead they told
me to stand quietly not to talk and just
to watch, then I would soon see something
wonderful. Whether the young man was in
a fit, or merely a willing instrument of delusion
I could not make out; but men and women
were standing in rows on one side, and
in solemn silence and as if in anxious ex-
pectation of some important scene. I soon
heard about a hundred yards off a deep
hollow sounding groan and observed a Black,
one of the doctors, creeping flat on the ground
like a snake Slowly a leap from amongst the
bushes towards the body, uttering repeatedly
this mysterious groan, until he reached th
young man when he stretched himself for
a few minutes upon him breathed into his
nostrils and rubbed his hands. He was followed
by another doctor who crept along in the same
way and went through the same ceremony, then came
the first again as before & so the third time the
same ceremony was gone through. And at the