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and if the present did not satisfy them, if they took one 
splinter, &c. out of the eye, to satisfy the employers, they 
left another in, that they might be sent for again. Their 
surgeons were remarkably dexterous in closing a cut or 
thrust, by drawing the edges carefully together, and 
applying the pungent juice of the ape, arum costatum, to 
the surface. This, acting like caustic, must have caused 
great pain. 
A fractured limb they set without much trouble : apply¬ 
ing splinters of bamboo-cane to the sides, and binding it 
up till it was healed. A dislocation they usually suc¬ 
ceeded in reducing 5 but the other parts of their surgi¬ 
cal practice were marked by a rude promptness, temerity, 
and barbarism, almost incredible. A man one day fell 
from a tree, and dislocated some part of his neck. His 
companions, on perceiving it, instantly took him up; 
one of them placed his head between his own knees, and 
held it firmly; while the others, taking hold of his body, 
twisted the joint into its proper place. 
On another occasion, a number of young men, in the 
district of Fare, were carrying large stones, suspended 
from each end of a pole across their shoulders, their 
usual mode of carrying a burden : one of them so injured 
the vertebrae, as to be almost unable to move; he had, 
as they expressed it, fati te tua^ broken the back. His 
fellow-workmen laid him flat on his face on the grass; 
one grasped and pulled his shoulders, and the other his 
legs, while a third actually pressed with both knees his 
whole weight upon the back, where the bones appeared 
displaced. It was not far from Mr. Barff’s house where 
the accident occurred, and, observing the people assem¬ 
bled, he went to inquire the cause, and saw them thus 
engaged. On his asking what they were doing, they 
