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CAMPS IN THE CARIBBEES. 



The fire had burned low, and it was only by its fit- 

 ful gleams that I saw this strange vision. Meyong 

 touched me, and whispered, " Coryet see jumbie." 



So it was ; he had seen the visitor of whom I had 

 but felt the presence. Looking upon this event, or 

 chain of events, in the light of subsequent revelations, 

 I laugh ; but at that time I almost believed, with my 

 boys, in the existence of a forest spirit. 



