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passed by the sick woman’s kraal.’’ Six weeks after a great 
captain died near the Umegazi, six persons were tor- 
tured and then burnt to death on the same charge, on simi- 
lar evidence ; the witch doctors pretended to find a piece of 
wood called Chaka buried in their kraal, which as it rotted 
would cause the deceased to rot away: they were accused 
also of having burnt a lizard in their garden, in order that 
the deceased might have no corn to eat, and so die of 
hunger. In addition, John Burton, my interpreter, informed 
me, “ that on his return from Butterworth (to which place 
he accompanied me when I went to the District Meeting) 
he arrived in the evening at a kraal near the Bashee, and 
found the place im great confusion: on inquiring the cause, 
he learned, that food being scarce, the people had buried a 
child of seven years old alive, because they did not like to 
see it starve before their eyes; the grave being not very 
deep, and the soil light, the child struggled hard, and its 
crying was heard by the mother, whose feelings prompted 
her to dig the child up again: the people were holding a 
consultation as to the propriety of burying the child again. 
John Burton reasoned with them, gave up the little food he 
had, and the people promised to let the child live.” 
15th.—Faku, accompanied by about one hundred and 
twenty attendants, came to see me, bringing a cow as 
a present from his brother. After the usual - civilities 
were over, I told him what I had heard of the murders 
on the account of witchcraft; he and his great men at- 
tempted to justify what had been done on the plea of ancient 
usage. 
3ls¢.—The waggon arrived from Graham’s Town, with 
supplies, after a journey of six weeks from town, having 
been delayed by rain and the badness of the roads between 
the Umtata and the Siation. Jiqwa, one of Faku’s confi- 
dential servants, who accompanied the waggon to town, re- 
