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on it. As soon as the thick black smoke begins to ascend the leper is bound band and foot, a rope fastened to his hesis,
by.
means of which he is drawn up
ever
the fire,
that his head is some,
e fifteen
t of
the
then
- losed and his friends retive
little.
a
inches from the ground, in the midst.
poisonous smotre . The door is
to
distance, whilst the poor sufferer is left
and shout and plead from the ary midst of the suffocating streams, but be
away.
is often allowed to remain for hours, and finally faints
When the is thought : sufficiently smoked the fire is removed the slime scraped from the body, and deep gashies out into the skin until the blood flows fredy - The leper is now
taken down and laid on his mats to await
death in many,
the result. In some cases.
life
and health. Wiliami Grad undergone
Surve
this fimful process. He had taken of the youths of the place, and on his
way
to the smoking-house told thens his pitiable condition, his shame as an onteast, and his willingness to suffer any
thing to obtain defend.
on
and much would
a cure, and
/
their firmness. They
to be moved by his
grouns
wert
not
and cries, and.
for the love they bore him he begged them. do the operation well, and threatened to punish them of they performed it only liulf - Imagine the some! They proved to the tonely house. Wiliami's much afraid of overdoing
companions, as