chap. xv. TKIAL AND SENTENCES OF THE CHRISTIANS. 427 
that you die.” He was a soldier from a distance, and not of 
the number of the accused. Then he was examined, and as 
he made the same avowal, they bound him also. And they 
removed these ten brethren and sisters, and made their bands 
hard or tight, and confined them each in a separate house.” 
The writers of the journal add, 66 And, at one o’clock at 
night, we met together and prayed.” On the 22nd of March, 
when one had said Jehovah is God alone, and above every 
name that is named, and Jesus Christ is also Grod, the people 
cried out, mocking. And to another the officer said, 4 Rabo- 
dampoimerina (the sacred name of our queen) is our god, but 
not your god.’ He answered, c The God who made me is 
my God ; but Rabodo is my queen or sovereign.’ And when 
he refused other answer, they said, 4 Perhaps he is an idiot, 
or a lunatic.’ He answered, 4 1 am not an idiot, and have 
not lost my understanding.’ Then there was a commotion 
and buzz among the people, saying, c Take him away.’ And 
they took him to prison. 
“And before it was light, on the following day, the 
people assembled at A-y. Then they took the eighteen 
brethren that chose God, and to inherit life, and to become 
His sons and His daughters, and they bound their hands and 
feet, and tied each of them to a pole wrapped in mats, 
and placed them with the other prisoners. And of these 
united brethren and sisters, ten were from Vonizongo. And 
when the officers, and troops, and judges arrived, they read 
over the names of each class of prisoners, and then placed them 
by themselves, and stationed around them soldiers with 
muskets and spears; and the sentences were then delivered, 
— consigning some to fine and confiscation, others to slavery, 
others to prison and chains, some to flogging, and eighteen 
to death—four to be burned, and fourteen to be hurled from 
the rocky precipice and afterwards burned to ashes. 
