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water spirit destroyed every night the work performed during the
on a rail.
ailway bridge in
day Savane then in course of construction
Avere
and that the Government required to sacrifice some hundreds
of children to appease
On that occasion I
this spirit.
was
told also
that a good many years before
when Grand River bridge
Bourse
of
construction a
similar story
was
few Indians in the Colony.
H
f
et proclamation in Chinese was at once prepared by
M. Lookhart, the Acting Registrar General and posted up all over the Chinese part of the City, which had the effect of calming the excitement, although confidence was not fully restored for several days.
was in
5.
precisely
prevalent
amongst the creoles of African descent. At that time there were
How the story originated
it is impossible to say. It is
probably
one
of the traditions
amongst Orientals which
Common ar
few