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in darkness, their wisdom in ignorance, and 
their strength in weakness. In them they 
find a balm for every wound, and a remedy 
for all the ills of life. In short, they put more 
confidence in Greegrees than many profess- 
ors of religion do in the Bible, and the God 
of the Bible. 
Once I asked the headman of a town 
what he would take for a witch Greegree, 
which at the time was hanging at the door- 
way of his hut. He looked at me with 
surprise, and said with his voice elevated, 
" you want to take my witch-medicine away 
so witch come and kill me one time ! 55 
Another time my men seemed much alarm- 
ed, upon the water growing rough, because 
of an approaching storm, and when I in- 
quired the cause of their fear, one replied 
they had no Greegree for storm on water. 
I brought several kinds of Greegrees with 
me to this country, and one "country 
fashion." The countrv fashion is about four 
inches long, three inches wide, and two 
inches thick. It is covered with cloth, and 
if genuine has some Arabic characters in 
it, and what else we know not. This .is 
