AN ANTHROPOID . 
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ceremonies as strange, and offerings propitiatory or expia- 
tory. Do not ask him why he does so, for he knows not. 
When the jungle tick bites him, he scratches himself, and 
when vague pains or fears from within disquiet him, he 
makes oblations. Scratching makes the bite worse, and 
I fear his oblations make his soul no better, but he goes 
on with the one as with the other, poor, “ darkly sinning, 
darkly suffering ” Koonbee. 
Q 2, 
