And When They Have Done This For A While, Again
Shall One Of The Conjurors Fall Flat And Wallow There Foaming At The
Mouth, And Then The Others Will Ask If He Have Yet Pardoned The Sick Man?
And Sometimes He Shall Answer Yea!
And sometimes he shall answer no!
And
if the answer be no, they shall be told that something or other has
to be done all over again, and then he will be pardoned; so this they do.
And when all that the spirit has commanded has been done with great
ceremony, then it shall be announced that the man is pardoned and shall be
speedily cured. So when they at length receive such a reply, they announce
that it is all made up with the spirit, and that he is propitiated, and
they fall to eating and drinking with great joy and mirth, and he who had
been lying lifeless on the ground gets up and takes his share. So when
they have all eaten and drunken, every man departs home. And presently the
sick man gets sound and well.[NOTE 12]
Now that I have told you of the customs and naughty ways of that people,
we will have done talking of them and their province, and I will tell you
about others, all in regular order and succession.
NOTE 1. - [Baber writes (Travels, p. 171) when arriving to the
Lan-tsang kiang (Mekong River): "We were now on the border-line between
Carajan and Zardandan:
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