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tim of his displeasure, would, for a larger offering, 
restrain his anger and withdraw the disease. The 
sorcerers were a distinct class among the priests of the 
island, and their art appears to claim equal antiquity 
with the other parts of that cruel system of idolatry by 
which the people have been so long oppressed; and 
though it has survived the destruction of the national 
idolatry, and is still practised by many, it is entirely 
discontinued by the principal chiefs in every island, 
and by all who attend to Christian instruction. 
