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from ear to ear. No hyena touched the body, which 
still more confirmed the belief that she was guilty; 
for my Seedee cook said, " Has not the hyena the soul 
of a man ? does he not know your thoughts when you 
determine on shooting him ? " 
On the 10th of July my servant asked permission 
to go and see the uchawe. I accompanied him to the 
outside of the bomah (village fence), where a woman 
and lad lay on their faces with their arms bound 
painfully tight, and writhing in torture. Poor crea- 
tures ! they met with no sympathy from the jeering 
crowd, but the ropes were slackened at my request. 
They had been apprehended on suspicion of having 
bewitched the sultan's brother, who lay sick for fif- 
teen days, and unless they could work off the magic 
spell they must die. The lad said, " Take me to the 
forest; I know an herb remedy." On the seventh 
day from this scene (during which the lad was out- 
side the village, and the woman kept by the sick 
patient in the stocks) the former was killed and the 
woman released. I went to see his body the follow- 
ing day, but the hyena (I was told) had taken it 
away. Nothing remained but blood and the ashes of 
some hair by a fire. Could they have tortured him 
by burning ? A case of adultery was punished in the 
most horrible manner, too painful to describe minute- 
ly. They had no Divorce Court ! The strapping 
young fellow who had found his way into the harem 
of the sultan, was tied to railings, stripped, certain 
parts of his person were smeared and covered with 
rags, then set fire to by the sultan in person, and he 
was dragged to the fire outside the village; but before 
he could reach it, assigais from the hands of the son 
