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become familiar with; but we wish you to give up that 

 everlasting preaching and praying ; we cannot become familiar 

 with that at all. You see we never get rain, while those 

 tribes who never pray as we do obtain abundance." This 

 was a fact ; and we often saw it raining on the hills, ten miles 

 off, while it would not look at us " even with one eye." 



The rain-makers believe that medicines act by a mysterious 

 charm, and they are all ready with such arguments as the 

 following. 



Medical Doctor. — Hail, friend ! How very many medicines 

 you have about you this morning ! Why, you have every 

 medicine in the country here. 



Bain Doctor. — Very true, my friend ; and I ought ; for the 

 whole country needs the rain which I am making. 



31. D. — So you really believe that you can command the 

 clouds ? I think that can be done by God alone. 



it. D. — We both believe the very same thing. It is God 

 that makes the rain, but I pray to Him by means of these 

 medicines, and, the rain coming, of course it is then mine. 

 It was I who made it for the Bakwains for many years, when 

 they were at Shokuane ; through my wisdom, too, their 

 women became fat and shining. Ask them ; they will tell 

 you the same as I do. 



11. D. — But we are distinctly told in the parting words of 

 our Saviour that we can pray to God acceptably in His name 

 alone, and not by means of medicines. 



E. D. — Truly ! but God told us differently. He made 

 black men first, and did not love us, as he did the white men 

 He made you beautiful, and gave you clothing, and guns, and 

 gunpowder, and horses, and waggons, and many other things 

 about which we know nothing. But toward us He had no 

 heart. He gave us nothing except the assegai, and cattle, 

 and rain-making ; and He did not give us hearts like yours. 

 We never love each other. Other tribes place medicines 

 about our country to prevent the rain, so that we may be 

 dispersed by hunger, and go to them, and augment their 

 power. W T e must dissolve their charms by our medicines. 

 God has given us one little thing which you know nothing of. 

 He has given us the knowledge of certain medicines by which 

 we can make rain. We do not despise those things whicb 



