7© Voijage of the Novara. 



desirous of getting at the treatment pursued by these sly 

 knaves when they go to work with their poor credulous 

 dupes of patients, promised this dusky disciple of ^sculapius 

 a present, if he would cure him by his own method, and 

 affected to have an intolerably severe pain in the left arm. The 

 Manlu^na displayed his treatment with a vengeance ; he laid 

 hold of the supposed sufferer by the arm, which he pinched 

 and punched, till there was not a sj)ot that had not received 

 his attentions, while during the entire process he now 

 screamed aloud, now whistled, now blew vigorously upon 

 the bare skin, as though endeavouring to expel the Evil 

 Spirit. According to the belief of these poor people, every 

 bodily pain is nothing other than a demon magically intro- 

 duced into the system through the evil influence of an 

 Eewee. The Manluena commenced to pinch the arm from 

 above, performing this anything but agreeable manipulation 

 with his hands lubricated with cocoa-nut oil, from above 

 downwards, the object being to drive out the Eewee from the 

 arm by the finger points ! Although the doctor had not used 

 his patient very tenderly, he nevertheless in the opinion of 

 the natives had not appeared to put forth all his powers, and 

 had made use of far fewer noises and contortions than had been 

 usual with him when one of themselves was undergoing 

 treatment. Moreover his original confidence seemed to fail 

 him in his anxiety lest some mischance should befall him in 

 case this attempt at a cure should miscarry, and accordingly 

 he speedily made off, after he had been complimented with a 



