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hearts; some who join with evil-doers to transgress; there are 
some also who borrow rice, and then will assert a lie that 
they have repaid it; some who borrow money and things 
of people, and will then swear that they have repaid and 
restored them, while they are conscious that they swear 
a lie : there are some also who have transgressed against 
father and mother, against friends and relations, yea, per¬ 
haps, he that is now opposite thee is such, viz., has cursed 
his friends, saying, in cursing them, £ I defy the judgment 
of the tangena.’ There are also who throw stones at 
people, to hurt them, that beat them with sticks from a 
malicious disposition, and are guilty of many other crimes, 
of which he now before thee may be guilty. But search 
thou not in him for these crimes, nor for any other similar 
to these, which have not been named, but might be named; 
but search thou, and see if he be guilty of sorcery. 
Separate that only; for thou art god who comprehendest 
what is within man, and thou knowest who is guilty of 
sorcery, and who is not; thou art the test of the sovereign 
and people, and canst detect what escapes the sovereign 
and people; therefore, mind, O Raimanamango, to separate 
the guilty from the innocent; and I give thee, Raimana¬ 
mango, only Vakintsaonjo, therefore take care, and look 
well for it. 
c< Hear, hear, hear, and hearken well, O thou Raimana¬ 
mango. He is not one in imagination, nor one named 
by any person, he is not yonder in the field, nor out of 
town, nor separated by a partition, nor out of sight; 
but behold him, yea, his very self, sitting opposite thee. 
Now, if he has the root, or trunk, or branch, or the leaves 
of sorcery with him; and if he fetched any from persons, 
or if persons brought any from him, and that his heart was 
pleased with it, that his mouth consented with all hardness 
