FUETHER EXPEEIENOES OF ME. FRESH. 
Re, “They are inspired with or by spiritSs but it is- 
not the spirits of gods — it is by the spirit called 
arrack. In fact the men are without doubt very drunk ! 
But the man smiled contemptuously, and said, “ How 
can they be drunk? The arrack was offered up in 
sacrifice to our god, and he has accepted it, drunk it 
up, not as we frail mortals do, for their method of 
eating and drinking is different from ours ; ‘ Marai ' 
has abstracted all the spirit out of the arrack, which 
he has used himself, and in return has substituted 
his own spirit; so that instead of these men being 
drunk, as you in your ignorance suppose, they having 
drunk that arrack are filled with the spirit of the god, 
by whom, and through whom his will and wishes are 
made known.” But any further conversation on the 
subject was now impossible,- for the noise made by 
drums, trumpets and loud shouts and yells was so 
deafening, as to exclude all other sounds ; and it was 
very evident that every “ man and mother’s son ” of 
them were all inspired with the spirit — they said 
‘the spirit of Marai,” but master said “the spirit 
of arrack.” A lull took place in the noises during 
the early part of the night, just at the time Mr, Fresh 
went to bed and to sleep. He thought it was all 
over, but soon found he was wrong j they were only 
eating rice in order to gather up strength for a fresh 
outburst. For the whole of that night the noises were 
kept up, and lasted till morning, w^hen “daylight did 
appear.” At six o’clock, the kanganis came up to the 
bungalow and said there could be no work to-clay, 
and master believed them for once, and said, “Very 
true, I did not require to be told this. ” The day after 
the orgies were over the dilatory debtor came to the 
bungalow and said, the evil spirit had departed, and 
be was quite well, but master told him he was glad 
to see the medicines he had given had quelled the 
fever and ague. It was very evident our dilatory 
friend had just made the report on his health an 
excuse for visiting the bungalow, as he hung about 
the verandah and did not go away. On being pressed 
to tell what was wanted, he said he had incurred a 
very heavy expense in driving off the devil, and be 
must have some more advances to pay it off. Ten 
pounds would do. Master now resolved a new line of 
conduct, which was to fight the enemy wdth his own 
weapons, so he shook his head and said : “ I dreamed 
a dream last night ; Marai appeared in a vision, 
and said, ‘That man must be tormented, and I have 
great power over him so long as he is in debt. When 
that ceases, so also does my power; give him money, 
»o that I may rule over him, and eventually ki 1 him— 
keep him in debt,’ ” On bearing this, the kangani 
