Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-17

be composed of the inspissated
juice of the sassybark several
patches of tea made A series i~N.,
OF experiments conducted
upon those yellow dogs which are
the inSeparable companions of the
negro In short time it openly proclaimed that
could beat the bush devil and his sassywood ordeal
But there rush for my services; in fact, my
sertion met with incredulous smiles.
Going the Great Test
SOME four five months later when the rice harvest
was due and the prospects all pointed to abundant
crop, there night fierce hurricane which
destroyed everything its path and ruined the crops
IN many fields. Two days later was waited upon by
distinguished visitors from up country one of whom
introduced to me by Governor Watson as Mono
rundoo King of the Whooras warke tribe living some
distance back from the coast Through his interpreter
his Majesty indicated desire for private consulta-
ton; so we adjourned to my office.
daddy, you be one good friend of King NIamboural'
Yes, Mamboura is my good friend"
MambOura be my good friend. Mamboura tell me
you be great medicine man. Mamboura tell me
maybe you can stop sassywood medicine Can you
do that, Daddy"
Eyes, if l can give the man my God medicine right
away quick can stop the devil medicine"
An; but, Daddy, they no let you give any medcine!
Will they let me the man, and talk to him, and
pat him the back?"
"You see him and talk to him, maybe pat him on
the back maybe"
IF they will let touch his back, 1 think can
stop the devil medicine; maybe but not What
the trouble, Momorundoo?'
"You know two days ago plenty wind, big storm
spoil plenty rice crops. One bush devil say my son
Varney make the wind come, and that bush devil
make my son drink sassywood medicine. My son say
he no make wind come, no kill rice crops That bush
devil no like he try to make much humbug for me;
he try to kill my boy Varney.'
Here too good a chance to lose; an opportunity
to the sassywood ordeal in full operation and posi-
bly, again to demonstrate the superiority of the God
medicine that of the devil DOCTOR &c. after ascer
tanning the date of the ordeal promised Momorundoo
to be hand and prove his sons innocence possible
to do.
The next morning found way, and by night
fall the guests of Momorundoo. The ordeal
set for the following night, and the intervening
time was spent in attending to such patients
from nearby towns and half towns. Incidentally the
accused young man was interviewed. He repeatedly
assured of his innocence and insisted that some one
else had tempered with the elements. With proper le
gal dignity assured him of my belief in his innocence
and that under consideration could defend guilty
specially cautioned him that, should approach
him after he had swallowed the sassywood medicine
and stick pin into his back under conditions was he
to take any notice of my action either by look word or
deed, the pin sticking to be his salvation.
During the afternoon friend MambOura and a
crowd of his followers damned the of their
into the sand at the landing place. Others came also;
for the fame of both Momorundoo and the devil doctor
widespread and it well known that enmity ex-
tied between the two. By moon-up the village was
crowded with nearly thousand people and the tom
toms beating in dozen places where dancing was
going Mamboura up to stealthily and
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