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sorcerers, Untler auy ol' these titles tliey 

 liave not much to do amongst tlie members 

 of tlieir own nation ; many of them do not 

 believe that the Pawangs liave any super- 

 uatnral power as sorcerers or as priests, 

 nor do they attribute any efficacy to the 

 acts they perform under these two titles. 

 Many others have great doubts on this sub- 

 ject : however some of them certainly ac- 

 knowledge in tfrem some extraordinary 

 power, more or less. The Pawangs them- 

 selves, at least those I have seen , have very 

 little confidence in their own ability either 

 capacity of sorcerers or ph\sicians. Tiiough 

 titeir knowledge be much circumscribed, 

 tliei^ are generally more clever than their 

 countrymen, and in every kind of sickness 

 they arc of course called upon. Their pre- 

 scrijitionsare always accompanied with some 



m jterforinmjr some <}U[>ersliltous pracUccs. since, as 1 

 Iiave mmjdoned in {uiolhei- )>la(T. (hey have no !i-uo 

 and nntf vvoi-sliiiK 



