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and should never do well. At length, to-day, he 

 got out of his sick bed, came to the house, attended 

 by the whole body of drivers, and accused his 

 brother-in-law of having been the stealer of his 

 goods. I asked, " Had Edward been seen near 

 his house ? Had any of his effects been seen in 

 Edward's possession ? Did Edward refuse to suffer 

 his hut to be searched?" No. Edward, who was 

 present, pressed for the most strict scrutiny, and 

 asserted his perfect ignorance \ nor could the ac- 

 cuser advance any grounds for the charge, except 

 his belief of Edward's guilt. " Why did he think 

 so?" After much beating about the bush, at 

 length out came the real causa doloris — " Edward 

 had Obeahed him ! " He had accused Edward of 

 breaking open his house, and had begged him to 

 help him to his goods again ; and " Edward had 

 gone at midnight into the bush" (i. e. the wood), 

 and " had gathered the plant whangra, which he 

 had boiled in an iron pot, by a fire of leaves, over 

 which he went puffi pufrle ! " and said the sautee- 

 sautee ; and then had cut the whangra root into 

 four pieces, three to bury at the plantation gates, 

 and one to burn ; and to each of these three pieces 

 he gave the name of a Christian, one of which was 

 Daniel ; and Edward had said, that this would 

 help him to find his goods ; but instead of that, he 

 had immediately felt this pain in his side, and 

 therefore he was sure that, instead of using Obeah 

 to find his goods, Edward had used it to kill him- 



