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stone detach itself and fall, leaving the patient free from pain. >

This stone, being porous, possessed the property of absorbing diseased or venomous matter. When it was placed in a basin of water the liquid soon became quite discoloured, and it was not till fresh water had been put into the vessel several times that the stone became perfectly cleansed from the bad matter it had absorbed from the wound.

A stone I saw, on a different occasion, which was found in a cocoa-nut, was marked with the same lines as those on the exterior of the shell. This was set in a ring, and was said to possess the pro- perty of curing weak e^^es.

As our ponies are now on the o})posite bank, we step into the llees-Wagen, and are conveyed across the swift broad current. As soon as we landed in safety on the other side, the carriage was pulled up by coolies to the top of the hill.

Not far from this river is a buildini: which the

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