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SPORT AND WAR. 
CHAP. VII. 
A WITCH-DOCTOR. 
CHAPTER VII. 
THE WITCH-DOCTOR. 
When a youngster, and stationed at Fort White, in the 
Province of Queen Adelaide (now British Kaffraria), 
at the termination of the Kafir War of 1834-5, I wit¬ 
nessed the following extraordinary and revolting sight. 
A rich Kafir residing in the neighbourhood became 
what he called ‘bewitched,’ and nothing could persuade 
him that animals or reptiles were not devouring him in 
