p. 175. 
p- 176. 
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was to accompany me, I demanded permission to wait for him. 
«Yes, yes,” they all replied with one voice, ‘‘ and if you cure 
our sick, we shall keep you for ever, and we shall build you 
a house,’’ and in evidence of their sincerity, the chiefs put the 
guard-house at my disposal. 
No sooner was I settled down in my new home, than 
I rit 
the appearance of a hospital of incurables: here is a young 
woman whose arm is covered with a horrible ulcer. ‘‘ When 
evil spirit got hold of me, and he has done his work.’’ Another 
patient has his stomach swollen to awful dimensions. I see 
cures, they would not believe me- 
y power was in the touch of my hand. And so they went on 
repeating: “‘ You are the most powerful Dondai (priest) ; 2° 
“‘spirit can resist you ; y 
this the practical consequ 
