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SURGICAL OPERATION. 
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I observed a woman on the outside of the 
houses whose feet were surrounded with blood, 
and another woman stood by her side with a 
knife in her hand; a deep cut had been made 
from the lower part of the thigh to the middle of 
the leg. This is their method of bleeding to cure 
some complaints, she stood with great com- 
posure, allowing the blood to flow freely. I ob- 
served that most people had a round swelled 
part on both temples, near the eyes, about the 
size and shape of half a musket-bullet, raised by 
incisions to cure the head-ache. A woman com- 
plained of a pain in her breast, and asked for 
medicine to cure it. It would be hazardous to 
administer medicine to such people, for should 
they happen to die, the medicine would be consi- 
dered as the cause, and probably the life of the 
prescriber thereby endangered. i' " ■ "> 
The holly-hock is a native of the Marootzee 
country, for I found it growing wild among 
the rocks around Kurreechane ; the flower was 
yellow. 
About sunset the commando, which had gone 
out in the morning in search of the Boquains, 
came marching in regular order to the vicinity of 
our waggons. They were armed with shields, 
spears, and battle-axes ; their faces bedaubed 
with pipe-clay, every face marked differently^ 
