Each remedy, of course, claimed the merit of the cure.
Many of the children are cut off by fever.

A fine boy of Captain Neves' had, since my passage westward, shared a similar fate.

Another child died during the period of my visit.

During his sickness, his mother, a woman of color, sent for a diviner in order to ascertain what ought to be done.

The diviner, after throwing his dice, worked himself into the state of ecstasy in which they pretend to be in communication with the Barimo.