June.] ASSERTION OF MOROKEY. 
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About mid-day the rain again descended, and con- 
tinued for two or three hours.* During the rain, 
Morokey, the Mashow rain-maker, came and sat 
down in the tent, and after remaining silent for 
some time, he told us, with much seriousness, and 
in a tone of voice as if what he said was unques- 
tionably true, that this rain was his, but he had 
not intended so much of it. I said he must know, 
in his own mind, that he had no more hand in 
causing the rain which had fallen than the wag- 
gons had. Instead of making a reply he asked 
for some snuff. 
In the evening the wind changed to the N. E., 
which cleared away the clouds nearly to the hori- 
zon, from whence much lightning proceeded till 
a late hour. 
On awaking at the dawn of the day, my atten- 
tion was immediately arrested by the rolling of 
thunder in different points in the heavens, and 
soon after, by the clouds plentifully discharging 
* It has been already hinted that the people wish to be de- 
ceived respecting the power of the rain-maker. In such 
countries there is nothing in which a greater sense of depen- 
dence can be felt than in respect to rain ; and without any 
knowledge or confidence in a Supreme Being, or any acquaint- 
ance with the laws of Nature, such a delusion must be the only 
antidote they occasionally have to keep them from despair. 
