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account, part of which relates to Fig. 1086, and may be compared with 
the priestly inventions above mentioned: 
Pére Desgodins was able, in 1867, to make a copy of eleven pages from a manu- 
script written in hieroglyphics, and belonging to a tom-ba or tong-ba, a medicine 
man among the Mo-sos. These hieroglyphics are not, properly speaking, a writing, 
JU Pg [Slap 
| ae zeit fates) ae 
S 
2 ROIS E 
Lee eH ey, von TAD 
Fic. 1086.—Mo-so MS, Desgodins. 
still less the current writing of the tribe. The sorcerers or tong-bas alone use it 
when invited by the people to recite these so-called prayers, accompanied with 
ceremonies and sacrifices, and also to put some spells on somebody, a specialty of 
their own. They alone know how to read them and understand their meaning; 
they alone are acquainted with the value of these signs, combined with the numbers 
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