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as to be seen by all. It is claimed that whoever 
steals anything from this farm, the medicine would 
catch him ; he would get bad sickness. The coun- 
try-fashion men get stones, shells, bug-a-bug hills, 
and many other foolish things, and set them up as 
medicines, to watch farms. Very few natives 
would dare steal where they see any of the above 
named medicines. Our converts are not allowed 
to put any kind of medicines on their farms, and 
frequently they suffer severely from theft. ' The 
thieves seem to search for the farms of the God 
people, as they call Christians, knowing that they 
do not put medicines on their farms. The Murry 
or medicine men also have smooth boards ; and if 
any one is sick they write, with a piece of chalk, 
passages of the Koran. They then wash it off in a 
bowl of water and give the water to the patient to 
drink. I once saw a Murry-man give a patient 
this water to drink. The patient died. I said to 
the Murry-man, “Daddy, your medicine no use.” 
He replied, “ Medicine use, but that daddy head 
too stronger ; ” that is, the man had no faith in the 
medicine, and hence died. 
Mr. Reamy, Lucy Caulker’s husband, was an 
Englishman, and* an agent for an English trading- 
house on York Island. A native from the country 
got in debt to him, and having nothing to pay he 
gave his son in pawn for seciirity. He turned the 
