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netting are made from the bark of different trees. 
The women are employed in preparing these for 
use. 
Though the slaves, as we have before observed, 
are treated with lenity, a strict guard is kept over 
them to prevent their running away ; and if any one 
is suspected of such an intention, an Ombiasse is 
sent for to lay a spell upon them. This impostor 
.mixes up a dose consisting of scraped roots and 
other ingredients, during which he keeps muttering 
his cabalistic expressions. This mixture is put into 
a calabash, and the slave is then hung round with 
roots, one on his breast, one over each eye, his 
back, and each leg and arm, giving them a name 
of some demon : a little is then scraped from every 
root, which the culprit is ordered to swallow, while 
the magician pronounces his imprecations over him 
“ Whenever he thinks of running away, remember, O 
you such an one (here he names the different demons 
to whom he has dedicated the roots), how he has 
eaten what belongs to you; and, if he offers to go 
away, arise in his stomach, O you, &c. See.; make him 
so sick that he shall not be able to stir: and ye who 
have guarded his several parts, break his back; let 
his breast be tormented with pain, and his legs chained 
as with parapingoes; and if he sets forward, join all 
your powers and break his legs the first time he jumps 
over any thing in the way.” During the time he pro¬ 
nounces these curses, he tosses his hands about, and 
raises and depresses his voice alternately, like a fanatic. 
