Many of the natives of this quarter are known, as in the South Seas, to eat the dog without paying any attention to its feeding.

The dice doctor or diviner is an important member of the community, being consulted by Portuguese and natives alike.

Part of his business is that of a detective, it being his duty to discover thieves.

When goods are stolen, he goes and looks at the place, casts his dice, and waits a few days, and then, for a consideration, tells who is the thief: he is generally correct, for he trusts not to his dice alone; he has confidential agents all over the village, by whose inquiries and information he is enabled to detect the culprit.

Since the introduction of muskets, gun doctors have sprung up, and they sell the medicine which professes to make good marksmen; others are rain doctors, etc., etc.