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not far off. It was towards dark, I went to see and noticed a young man lying on the ground as if lifeless, when I enquired, whether he was dead they told me to stand quietly not to talk and just watch, then I would soon see something wonderful. Whether the young man was in a fit, or merely a willing instrument of [de...] I could not make out; but men and women were standing in rows on one side, and in solemn silence and as if in anxious expectation of some important scene. I soon heard about a hundred yards off a deep hollow sounding groan and observed a [indecipherable] one of the doctors, creeping flat on the ground like a snake [Holding?] a leaf from amongst the branches towards the body, uttering repeatedly this mysterious groan, until he reached [indecipherable] young man when he stretched himself for a few minutes when [indecipherable]breathed into his nostrils and [rubbed?] his hands. He was followed by another doctor who crept along in the same way and went through the same ceremony, then came the first again as before and so the third time the same ceremony was gone through. And at 

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