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attended by calling wltnefles, and application to a magiilrate, 
and the certain confequence of proof is the forfeiture of his 
fon, daughter, nephew, or niece, to the perfon trefpaffed on. 
Thefe accidents are continually happening, and produce a great 
number of Haves. A commiffion to purchafe any thing in a 
diftant market, not exactly fulfilled, is attended with a like 
forfeiture. But above all, if a perfon of note die, the family 
have no idea of death as a necelTary event, but fay that it is 
effedted by witchcraft. To difcover the perpetrator, the poorer 
natives, far and near, are obliged to undergo expurgation by 
drinking a liquor which is called in Dar-Fur Kilingi^ or fome- 
thing that refembles it ; and the perfon on whom the fuppofed 
figns of guilt appear, may either be put to death, or fold as a 
flave. 
X The people of Kulla are ftrangers to venereal complaints, but 
are fubje£t to the fmall-pox. In that part of the country which 
is vifited by the Jelabs there is a king ; the reft is occupied by 
fmall tribes, each of which is ruled by the chief who happens 
to have moft influence at the time. The Kumba^ or Pimento 
tree, is found there in fuch plenty, that a rotai or pound of fait 
will purchafe four' or five mid^ each mid about a peck. 
: The trees are fo large, from the quantity of water and deep 
clay, that canoes are hollowed out of them fufEciently capa- 
cious to contain ten perfons. 
It was related to me by Jelabs who have vifited that country, 
that the inhabitants of Dar Bergoo make war by fudden incur- 
fions, 
