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moves in perfect harmony? When a wicked monarch was troubled 

 by a more wicked spirit, the melody of the harp composed and 

 refreshed him, and he was well, and his toiled assailant departed 

 from him. In what I have slated, I am assured, I represent facts; 

 and I know, as to the probable cause of those facts, 1 express his 

 sentiments, whose opinions, as well as actions, so far as it is mate- 

 rial to record the one or the other, it is my duty to exhibit with all 

 fidelity. We cannot pronounce with certainty what is merely 

 natural disease, what demoniacal possession, and what the occa- 

 sional molestation of the powers of darkness; for we have not, as 

 bishop Newton has justly remarked on the subject, that miracu- 

 lous gift, the discerning of spirits; but it is right surely to pray for 

 deliverance from the more extraordinary degrees of temptation or 

 trouble, as well as from those which are less uncommon; provided 

 it be done with a condition expressed, that the case be what to us 

 appears probable; and a better prayer for the purpose will not 

 easily be devised, than that which precedes and occasioned these 

 remarks/' 



Soon after my appointment to Dhuboy, I witnessed an extra- 

 ordinary occurrence, and committed the particulars to paper a few 

 hours after it happened. 



The discovery of money and jewels, concealed in receptacles 

 within the thick walls and subterraneous cells in oriental houses, is 

 well known; such treasures are also frequently found in obscure 

 spots in fields and gardens. A town is seldom conquered with- 

 out such a discovery; and it is not uncommon to find similar de- 

 posits in the country. That such concealments were believed 

 among the ancients, we learn from many historians; especially 



