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'777- allowed to approach as near as we plcafed. Indeed, after 



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\_— V — I that, neither fcrioufnefs nor attention were much oblerved 

 by the fpedlators. When the dog was put upon the ivhatioy 

 the priefls and attendants gave a kind of Ihout, which 

 clofed the ceremonies for the prcfent. The day being now 

 alfo clofed, we were condu(5ted to a houfe belonging to Po- 

 tatou, where we were entertained, and lodged for the night. 

 We had been told, that the religious rites were to be renew- 

 ed in the morning ; and I would not leave the place, while 

 any thing remained to be feen. 



Tuefdayj. Being unwilHng to lofc any part of the folemnity, fome 

 of us repaired to the fcene of acTtion pretty early, but found 

 nothing going forward. However, foon after, a pig was 

 facrificed, and laid upon the fame nvhatta with the others. 

 About eight o'clock, Otoo took us again to the 77iora!, where 

 the priells, and a great number of men, were, by this time, 

 aflembled. 1 he two bundles occupied the place in which 

 we had feen them depofited the preceding evening; the two 

 drums flood in the front of ihcynorai, but fomewhat nearer 

 it than before; and the pricfts were beyond them. Otoo 

 placed himfelf between the two drums, and dcfired me to 

 fland by him. 



The ceremony began, as ufual, with bringing a young 

 plantain-tree, and laying it down at the king's feet. After 

 this a prayer was repeated by the priells, wlio held in their 

 hands feveral tufts of red feathers, and alfo a plume of 

 ollrich feathers, which 1 had given to Otoo on my firft ar- 

 rival, and liad been confccrated to this ufc. When the 

 priefls had made an end of the prayer, they changed their 

 ftation, placing thcmfclves between us and the morai -, and 

 one of them, the famc'perfon who had adcd the principal 



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