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SPIRITUALISM. 



mone) slept, for insight into futurity, upon their 

 ancestral graves. The wild highlanders of the 

 East African ghauts have an equally useful den 

 in their grim mountains; and on the "West 

 African coast the Krumen consult the c Great 

 Debbil,' who lives in a hole amongst the rocks of 

 Grand Cavalla. The traveller who, pace my 

 friends of the Anthropological Society, postulates 

 spiritualism or spiritism (as M. Allan Kardec has 

 it), will save himself much mystification, and he 

 will soon find that every race has had, and still 

 has, its own Swedenborg. 



The men of Tumbatu at their half-heathen 

 wakes, lay out the corpse, masculine or feminine, 

 and treat it in a way which reminds us of Ham- 

 let's (Act v. 1) ' Where be your gibes now ? 

 your gambols, your songs ? ' A male friend will 

 say to his departed chum — 



' O certain person ! but a few days ago I 

 asked thee for cocoa-nut-water and tobacco, 

 which thou deniedest to me — enh? Where is 

 now the use of them ? 1 



6 Eellow ! ' a woman will address the dead, 

 * dost thou remember making fierce love to me 

 at such and such a time ? Much good will thy 

 love do me now that thou art the meat of ugly 

 worms ! 9 



