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was full of wild legends relating to the locality, and would 

 insist on telling them. 



" He turned out to be a famed sorcerer, or Piaiman ; and at 

 a village called Itabay, where we stopped one night in return- 

 ing, he left the house in which we had put up our hammocks, 

 telling the interpreter to inform me that his absence for the 

 night was unavoidable, owing to his having to go up amongst 

 the mountains to roam about for the night, whilst his good 



PEE-AY-MAN. 



spirit remained in one of the houses to cure a sick man, 

 who had demanded his good offices. 



" In two minutes after he had left us his powerful voice was 

 heard making the most discordant sounds imaginable, chanting, 

 howling, coughing, and many other diabolical noises, to these 

 were added the shishing sound of an instrument called a shak- 

 shak, made of a small round calabash filled with seeds, and 

 placed on a handle, by which it is shaken. 



