This I covered with two waterproof Abyssinian tanned hides securely strapped, and lashing two long poles parallel to the sides of the angarep, I formed an excellent palanquin.

In this she was assisted, and we started on June 23d.
On our arrival at Obbo both my wife and I were excessively ill with bilious fever, and neither could assist the other.

The old chief of Obbo, Katchiba, hearing that we were dying, came to charm us with some magic spell.

He found us lying helpless, and immediately procured a small branch of a tree, and filling his month with water he squirted it over the leaves and about the floor of the hut.

He then waved the branch around my wife's head, also around mine, and completed the ceremony by sticking it in the thatch above the doorway.