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neither Walderheros nor his wife could recollect 

 more than six, and they could not vouch for the cor- 

 rectness of these, so I was desired not to set them 

 down, as I should have a better opportunity of 

 acquiring them. After that it never occurred to 

 me, until it was too late, that I had not again 

 attended to the subject. One name, however, I 

 recollect, was " Burr alunga" silver whip, and this 

 is somewhat of the same whimsical character as the 

 name of Hop-dance; and, in my opinion, future 

 inquiries will show a near approach in the nomen- 

 clature of the two countries as regards this very 

 similar superstition. It must be also observed that 

 Mad Tom was afflicted with more than one, Frater- 

 etto, Obidicut, Hobbididance, Mahu, Modo, and 

 Flibbertigibbet, being the several fiends whom we 

 are told tormented him. 



August I4:th. — Walderheros seeing that I defied 

 the devil and all his works, by dismissing with a 

 suitable admonition his lying agents, tried then, 

 upon a different principle, to relieve me of the 

 fever, and brought me down this morning two 

 priests from the Church of Goodis Gorgis (St. 

 George), which is situated on the ridge in front of 

 Ankobar, before we come to the denuded site of 

 the old Church of Abbo. These turbaned minis- 

 ters of religion promised faithfully by prayers to 

 cure me of my harassing complaint. I shook my 

 head in a most scandalous manner, as I doubted the 

 efficacy of their intercession quite as much as I did 



