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submit, and contends that the doctors are mistaken in sup- 
posing him to be the person who ought to suffer. Every 
petty Chief is now alarmed, as they say some one must be 
put to death. While this affair was in agitation, I made 
many attempts to see laku, but he kept out of my way: I 
delivered my testimony against this crying abomination to 
his great men, who pretended to know nothing about it. 
Nov. 8th.—This day I received letters from Messrs. 
Collis and Fynns, from Natal, informing me of the safe 
arrival of their party. 
Dec. 1st. —Messrs. Cawood, with their wives and families, 
arrived herein six waggons on their way to Natal. This 
morning, hearing that a man who a year ago had stolen a 
cow of Mr. Painton’s had, together with his wife, been ac- 
cused of witchcraft by a doctor who was his wife's brother, 
I sent to the people who were torturing him, to inform 
them that if he were put to death I should look to them for 
the fine owing to me by him on account of his former theft ; 
this induced them to permit his escape, and he and his 
wife fled to Umewengi who protects them. 
24th.—¥aku came with a large party to tell the news: 
I expostulated with him on his debauchery; he replied, “ It 
is our custom, and your laws are too hard for us.” I learned 
to-day that the word “Satan,” is used among the Amapondas, 
as the name of an evil Spirit: they say the word is not of 
foreign origin, but an ‘everlasting word,” that is, a word 
they have always been accustomed to use. 
It is also the custom to baptize men previous to their 
officiating as doctors. 
28th.—Heard to-day that the doctress who accused the 
poor woman, Gecani, last May, of bewitching Jama’s daugh- 
ter, who died on the Station as related in my Journal, now 
says that Jama himself is the guilty person, and that “he is 
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