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him to death as my murderer. Seeing that I could 

 not induce him, and both his wife and Goodaloo 

 being of the same opinion as himself, I allowed 

 him to use his own discretion. During the con- 

 sultation, however, that was held upon the occasion, 

 Hadjji Abdullah came in, and it was decided among 

 them I should be cupped upon the top of the head. 

 The hair being accordingly shaved off the assigned 

 place, in a circle about the size of a crown-piece, 

 the hollow upper end of a horn, about four inches 

 in length was then placed upon the bare skin. To 

 the tapered extremity of this, through which was a 

 small hole communicating with the interior, Wal- 

 derheros applied his mouth and exhausted the air. 

 This being done, he then closed the aperture with 

 a piece of wax, that had been placed ready for that 

 purpose around the end of the horn. The usual 

 tumefaction of the integument immediately beneath 

 was occasioned by being thus relieved of atmos- 

 pheric pressure. After a little time remaining in 

 this position, a needle was inserted into the wax, 

 and air being admitted into the horn, it fell off. 

 Walclerheros, with the heel of a sharp razor, then 

 gave three jerking cuts in the skin, and immediately 

 replacing the horn over the part, again withdrew the 

 air, and a slight movement of the tongue closed the 

 aperture as before with the wax. In a few minutes, 

 the ascending surface of the blood, seen through 

 the white semi-transparent horn, indicated that 

 sufficient had been extracted, and holding down 



