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ankles, and other parts of the body. They 
suppose these will keep off disease, and the 
intended injuries of enemies, preserve from 
poisonous serpents, wild animals, keep off 
all evil, and secure all good. 
Greegrees are so common that few per- 
sons are without at least one : and sometimes 
ten, and even twenty are found upon the 
same individual. Ordinarily each Greegree 
has a particular office to fill, in the way of 
averting evil, and producing good ; but some 
of them, like patent medicines of this 
country, are good for everything. Confi- 
dence in Greegrees is most degrading to. the 
intellect, and besides, it gives great scope 
to the impostures of those who make them. 
Exhorbitant prices are demanded: sometimes 
the value of several slaves for one Greegree. 
Once I asked an intelligent heathen what 
good he derived from his Greegrees? He 
said those on his ankles would keep snakes 
from Ct bite" him, and those on his wrists 
and neck would keep "bad sick from catch 
him." 
At Baily, after staying over night, and as 
we were about leaving in the morning, the 
