neighbourhood of Lusambo was poisoning people in the district, and several suspicious cases among our own people decided the Commandant to arrest him. He was brought in for trial, much to the surprise of the native population, who arrived by hundreds to see what would happen to us for having interfered with him. Upon being found guilty, he was sentenced by the tribunal to receive a flogging. Before his sentence was carried out, however, the Commandant told him publicly that he was going to be flogged, but that he would be allowed to make medicine first, in order that he should not feel it.

He replied that he had nothing to make medicine with, his materials being all in his hut. Some men were accordingly sent to his village, and returned to the compound with the hut itself and everything it contained. He was thereupon put