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to appeafe by their death : fometimes they yield the 

 girls up to their pleafures, who ferve them as wives 

 during the time they have yet to live. But when 

 they are apprifed of their fate, they muft be careful- 

 ly watched for fear they mould efcape. For this 

 reafon it is often concealed from them. 



As foon as every thing is ready for the execution 

 they are delivered up to a woman, who from the 

 fondnefs of a mother paries at once into the rage of 

 a fury, and from the tendered careffes to the mod 

 extreme tranfports of madnefs. She begins with 

 invoking the made of him whom (he is about to a- 

 venge. Approach, fays fhe, thou art going to 

 * c be appeafed I am preparing for thee a feaft, 

 ** drink deep draughts of this broth which is now 

 ii to be poured out before thee ; receive the victim 

 c * prepared for thee in the perfon of this warrior j 

 " he mall be burnt and put into the chaldron ; 

 * c burning hatchets (hall be applied to his fkin his 



fcalp mall be flea'd off; they will drink out of 

 " his fcull ; ceafe therefore thy complaining ; thou 

 u malt be fully fatisfied." This formula, which is 

 properly the fentence of death, often varies consider- 

 ably in the expreffion, but is always nearly the fame 

 in iubftance. A crier then calls the prifoner out of 

 his cabbin, proclaiming with a loud voice the in- 

 tentions of the perfon to whom he belongs, and con- 

 eludes with exhorting the youth to perform their 

 parts well, A fecond herald then advances, and 

 addrefling himfelf to the prifoner, tells him, " Thou 

 * c art going to be burnt, my brother, be of good 

 <c courage." He again anfwers coolly, " It is 

 « c well, I thanjc thee." Immediately the whole viU 

 lage fet up a loud fhout, and the prifoner is con- 

 duced to the place appointed for his execution. 



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