IN AFRICAN FOREST AND JUNGLE 



his idol from his bag and putting it on the ground, 

 and then talking to her as he would to an old trusted 

 friend ; asking her to protect him against witch- 

 craft, to kill his enemies, and to let him go back safe 

 to the Oguizi. When the evening came, he lighted 

 several fires, and took again his little idol from his 

 bag, and made numerous invocations to her. Poor 

 Rogala was very unhappy, for he was fully persuaded 

 that somebody had bewitched him. During the night 

 he heard an owl, and he thought some of his enemies 

 had taken that shape and were following him. 



The following day, at daybreak, Rogala left the 

 place where he had slept, and walked as fast as his 

 legs could carry him ; then he came to a small plan- 

 tation where lived a great medicine man, and prom- 

 ised him three brass rods which I had given him if 

 he would follow him. The medicine man assented ; 

 then they went to a place where years before Rogala 

 had buried a powerful mondah to drive away witch- 

 craft from the place. 



The medicine man made many incantations over 

 the mondah before Rogala dug it out. The mondah 

 was composed of several skulls of nshiegos and bones 

 of other animals. When he had dug up all the relics, 

 Rogala packed them carefully in the otaitai he had 

 with him, then rose and retraced his steps towards 



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