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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1913.

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Most of the towns have their sacred pool, inhabited by good or evil spirits. bowhich in the past coumless human victime were encrificed. Upon two of thess holy waters the Lake of life and the neighbouring Pool of Hatroda Deash-Mr. Talbot and Mr. Eckin, at the Kwa bo Mission, are the first and only existing white me to have set

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moro stered waters, each with ita différ ens legend and agic powers, the mys teries of which have never been unveiled to any save ourselves. One of the most Interesting of these places is a holy bay hidden omid, bringing mangrove, the waters of which lap against the shrine where, amid piles of human skulls, lowers the terrible spirit. Ita Brinyan To invoke his aid against an memy one need but pluck a lest, calling upon the name of the Juju and that of the man to be injured. The offering should then be flung into reek or stream, the waters of which waft it to the bar, and, from the moment that it "ronobes the shrine, the Juju lies in wait to drag down to a terrible dooms the one against whom his aid was invoked."*

SECRET SOCIETY OF CHOSTS." Mr. Tabob, referring to the hard task of the administration in dealing with secret societies which abscertain timeS of the year still seek to oder human sacrifices, said: "Towards the end of September such an attempt was mado by a group of towns in a distant part of the district, never before visited by Euro peaus... My attention was first drawn to this particular socley, which bears "the dreaded namie of Ekkpo. Njawhaw (Ghost-the Destroyers) by a poor wo man who bright some fragments of charred bone, which she asserted was all" Lafe to her of an only brother, who had falen a victim to the vengeance of one of the chicts of the society, A little later complaints began to come in from missionaries as to eruel maltreatment, of school children, and other converts; peace- fully proceeding on their way, to church. Later I discovered that a little girl, 7 years old, we only rescued with great difficulty from being offered up, after the sacrificial dress had been placed upon her, while the great drum was beaten, and the head priest announced Ekkpo

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