At a Goldee village I saw a man wearing a wooden representation of an arm, and learned that it is the practice to wear amulets to cure disease, the amulet being shaped like the part affected.

A lame person carries a small leg of wood, an individual suffering from dyspepsia a little stomach, and so on through a variety of disorders.

A hypochondriac who thought himself afflicted all over had covered himself with these wooden devices, and looked like a museum of anatomy on its travels.

I thought the custom not unknown in America, as I had seen ladies in New York wearing hearts of coral and other substances on their watch-chains.

Evidently the fashion comes from l'Amour.
[Illustration: THE HYPOCHONDRIAC.] The morning after leaving Doloe we had a rain-storm with high wind that blew us on a lee shore.