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young bullock they had brought; which being done, all on 
the doctor’s side of the circle rose with their spears, and 
fearing some one would be killed, I went into the middle of 
the circle to intimidate the doctor, and to rescue the un- 
happy man, whoever it might be, before they had time to 
destroy him. The doctor was evidently confused; and 
after dancing some time, he retired to consult the other 
doctors, during which time every eye was anxiously fixed 
on the doctor, no one knowing on whom the charge of be- 
witching the Captain would fall. I kept between the doctor 
and Sinama’s people; and at length the doctor said, the 
person who had bewitched the Captain was not present, but 
he gave the name, and a description of his person, to which 
the others objected, saying—“ There is no such person living 
among us.” ‘The doctor replied—‘ I have given the name, 
and can do no more; when the others answered—“< You 
have given no proper name, nor do we know any one that 
answers to the description you give, and therefore we shall 
have what we paid you back again.” 
When the whole was thus ended, I addressed the doctors 
on the danger they were in of being destroyed by that God 
whose Sabbath they despised, that they had greatly sinned, 
that I came to prevent any one from being injured, and, as 
the servant of God, I could not allow such practices without 
lifting up my voice against it. The doctors made no reply, 
but evidently were glad that no proper name had been 
given. 
Before I went into the circle, the doctor seemed to pay 
very little attention to my being present; and from what I 
could hear, it seems he intended to fix on three persons, 
who no doubt would have been killed on the spot, as the 
Captain informed me in the morning he could not save the 
person the doctor named. 
