OREEGBEES 
used for a variety of things — such as 
driving evil spirits out of town — trying 
convicts — curing the sick — and keeping 
off sickness. 
To try convicts, the Greegree man rubs 
this on a piece of board, or wood, back and 
forward, and so long as he can keep it going 
the accused is accounted innocent, but if 
it stops he is guilty. They believe that 
gome supernatural power holds back, or 
makes powerless the hand of the operator, 
so that he cannot continue to move the 
country fashion, if the accused be guilty ; 
whilst the truth is he may cease or continue 
at pleasure. Surely that "people is de- 
stroyed for lack of knowledge. 33 
I must give some account of the Gree- 
grees I brought from Africa. Two of them 
were taken from a slave canoe which was 
captured, and the slaves liberated . One 
was to tell whether slave canoes could pass 
places where there was a liability to be cap- 
tured. They have a way of consulting 
Greegrees to learn such things from them. 
The captain of the canoe here spoken of 
was told by his- Greegree, that if lie would 
