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This feeling I could not shake of! ; but I reached camp 

 without harm, though my face must have betrayed 

 me, for Meyong noticed my agitation and remarked : 

 "Ah, you meet jumbie, eh?" 



Jombie, or jumbie, is the name by which are known 

 the evil spirits who walk the earth. 



K No," I replied, "I have seen nothing." I did not 

 care to show to Meyong any such foolish fear as had 

 just before possessed me. 



" You no see him, but he see you ; something make 

 you Yraid." This I could not deny ; and then Me- 

 yong launched into the story of the ghost that haunted 

 this mountain, which he fully believed. Stretched 

 upon my bed of palm-leaves, I listened as he talked. 



"If c crak-crak ' bawl one kind way, some person 

 go to dead. Me sinks me hear zat to-day. Long 

 agone, in old Carib time, one berry cruel man say he 

 must to be bury like he sit down, he must to be put in 

 he grave just like he sit on bench. Well, zey make 

 him so, and not long all ze person get walloping ; zey 

 know not who make it, but if a man only so speak of 

 ze man buried and say, ' Ah, poor fellah,' he shu to 

 get him skin well wallop. It make ze person most 

 fright to dead, and if zey but go near he hut where 

 him bury in ze night, zey must to see him jumbie and 

 get blow on ze head. Soon again, he jumbie take to 

 go in ze canoe all about ze coast ; when zey go nshin' 

 he always to be dah : he whistle, he sing, an' ze canoe 

 men use to him an* not mine him. One day ze canoe 

 swamp an' ze jumbie make to drown, but ze Carib 

 men he no drown ; zev see him no mo'. Person say 

 he come up to ze mountain, zat T sinks myself. Alter 

 zat, no mo' Carib bury like him sitting down." 



