Lodge by the cords that were fixed in their shoulders with their feet at some distance from the ground – so yet that they could not Kick nor stir during the operation[.] In […] as soon as each had undergone the suffering which he had imposed upon himself – he was returned from his high station at the beam and allowed to return from whence he came still dragging his original equipage – until he placed the whole where he had found them and where people were placed stationed on purpose to untyie and rescue them. When the wooden pins were taken out of his shoulders an Old woman sucked the blood from the wounds which she then stuffed with a certain meshed root pulp chewed with her teeth for that purpose[.] Then the suffering heros (or whatever You choose to call him) took his stripes of flesh and his finger and placed them into a neat little bag with which he immediately danced off went to the out side of the village singing a lamentable dirge and deposited it as an offering to his God!

Tired of such a dreadful sight I left the great Lodge and returned to my quarters – where I found the Guards of police indulging their propensity to their full extent with the girls in during the absence of their parents[.] All I can say of these other As to the […] warriors in that the Sun was high next the ensuing morning before the last of them came, in his turn, before the old man and left his the beam[.]

The old man was handsomely rewarded for his trouble. The Young warriors upon whom he conferred so many signal obligations loaded him with presents and he was the next evening one of the richest men in the village.

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