IN AFRICAN FOREST AND JUNGLE 



celebrated 'medicine man ' who was known all over the 

 country for his skill in discovering sorcerers. They 

 promised to pay him two slaves if he would come. 

 The name of this great ' ooganga/ or medicine man, 

 was Makoonga ; he is living now. He sent word 

 by the messenger that he would come after hi^: 

 return from another village where he was going to 

 find out who had killed by witchcraft the brother 

 of the chief 



" There was great joy in the village when the mes- 

 senger brought back word that Makoonga was com- 

 ing. Three days after the return of the messenger 

 another man disappeared, and remains of his body 

 were discovered, showing that he had been devoured 

 by a leopard. Then all the people said that some 

 one among them had changed his shape and turned 

 into a leopard, that he had eaten up the three persons 

 who had disappeared, and had also taken the shape 

 of an elephant and trodden upon the man who had 

 been killed in that way. 



" There was no more sleep in the village. The 

 people danced all night, and called upon the spirits 

 of their ancestors to protect them from witchcraft. 

 They made invocation to their idol and to the spirits 

 Mburu and Abambo. 



" Then Makoonga came, and the following day the 



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