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that there were no such people as wizards, and that no 
_ living being had power to kill another by witchcraft. 
He became suspicious of his dearest friends. His near- 
est relatives, he thought, were those who wanted to get rid 
_ of him in order to get his wives, slaves, ivory, and goods. 
What a terrible superstition this belief in witchcraft 
is! The father dreads his children, the son his father 
and mother, the man his wife, and the wives their hus- 
bands. A man fancies himself sick; he imagines the 
sickness has been brought upon him by those who 
want him out of the way, and at last becomes sick 
through his fears. Atnight he fancies himself surround- 
ed by the anzemba who are prowling round his huts, and 
that evil spirits are ready to enter into him as he comes 
out; and if this should happen he believes that disease 
and death are surely near. 
So Quengueza covered himself with fetiches, and every 
day invoked the spirits of his ancestors—Igoumbai, Rica- 
ti, Kombi, and Niavi (his mother)—to protect him from 
the animba. How strangely his voice sounded in the 
silence of the night! One could not but be awed by it. 
Every morning he told the wonderful and frightful 
dreams he had—-for these people believe in dreams—and 
he was so convinced that the village was full of wicked 
sorcerers, that at last the whole people became infected 
by his fears, each one thinking that his life was at stake. 
Hence the ouganga, Olanga-Condo, had been ordered by 
the King to drink the mbowndou, and then tell the names 
of the sorcerers. | 
The leading people of Goumbi had met, and protest- 
ed that no one wanted to bewitch their king; they all 
wanted him to live to the end of time. 
