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by the tribe, for haying so ably delivered the 
chief from the influence of the wizard. 
The most terrible part of the picture then 
appears — the death of the victim. The usual 
manner of this is by causing him to be stung 
to death by ants and reptiles, or by burning. 
The former of these they effect by stripping 
him naked, and rubbing his body over with 
honey, and then pegging him down on his back ? 
(through the hands and feet) on the top of an 
ant-hill, where he is quickly covered with 
insects, which settling in his eyes, ears, and 
nostrils, soon sting him to madness, and thus 
bring him to a cruel and agonizing death. 
If the other process is selected, they gene- 
rally preface it by first pegging him up against 
a tfee, and setting the young lads to practice 
the "assegai" throwing at his body as a target, 
thus torturing him whilst the fire is preparing 
to consume him. When this is sufficiently 
large, they roll huge stones into the centre of 
it, and leave them there until they become red 
hot. Having a supply of these in sufficient 
number, they then transfer the body of their 
victim from the tree where he has been placed, 
to the side of the fire, and there peg him with 
"assegais" upon the ground on his back, and pro- 
ceed to roll out the stones, one by one, from the 
fire ; and, placing them upon different parts of 
