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MISSIONARY LIFE 
On inquiring I learned that a very old Timmine 
woman had died, and that they were not able 
to bury her. She possessed a Timmine medi- 
cine. Demen is the name of it. This medicine- 
must be thrown on her before they could bury 
her ; and as no one there knew the medicine, they 
had sent away thirty miles to bring a woman wha 
knew the very medicine. The woman had come,, 
but demanded one head of money and eight 
pieces of cloth before she would pull the medi- 
cine. They had got part; but how or where to- 
get the rest was troubling them. They believed 
that if they were to put hands on the dead wom- 
an before she was washed in this medicine the- 
medicine would catch them and they would die.- 
I asked to see the woman. The medicine-woman 
led me to the hut where the corpse had lain for 
two days. I pulled the mat to one side and went 
in, the people watching to see if anything would, 
happen to me. 
Matthew Will paid six pieces of cloth for Sa- 
teah for a wife for himself. After a couple of 
years she left him and went to be a wife for Beah.. 
Matthew said, It is all right. I shall not have 
to give her cloths. She has carried away two> 
blankets and my shirt and jnmpex\ But never 
mind; God will give me more.” Will sold his 
house for £2 10s. There were cassava and plan- 
