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A third attempt the rascal made with no more success; and then vanished from Sierra Leone; considering as the Obeah-men in the West Indies are said to hold of the Catholic priests that 'Buccra Padre's Obeah was too strong for his Obeah.
Sometimes I had obtained for her a holiday sometimes saved her a whipping, and at others had given her a trifle of money; she therefore became exceedingly attached to me, and as she saw her mistress's anger daily increase, she knew what it would probably end in, and watched my safety like a little guardian sylph. "No drinkee coffee, Massa," said she, "Missy putty obeah stuff in."
He seemed to see again the obeah, as that monster advanced upon the girl, clutching, supremely hideous. "The hair! The same kind of hair! In the power of the Horde!" he gasped. A mental picture of extermination flashed before his mind's eye. Whether the girl lived or died, he knew now that his life work was to include a total slaughter of the Anthropoids.
And instances are known of negroes, who, being reduced by the fatal influence of Obeah to the lowest state of dejection and debility, from which there were little hopes of recovery, have been surprisingly and rapidly restored to health and cheerfulness by being baptized christians.
They were without Pity; they were without knowledge that theirs was a cut-throat, nay, a cannibal trade. The white man had made war on them, and torn them from their Homes, where they were happy enough in their Dirt and Grease, their War-paint, and their idolatrous worship of Obeah and Bungey. 'Twas these Men-monsters that we went to hunt.
In Jamaica, I was assured by a Nonconformist missionary who had long lived there, Obeah is by no means on the decrease; and in Hayti it is probably on the increase, and taking at least until the fall and death of Salnave shapes which, when made public in the civilised world, will excite more than mere disgust.
The unhappy creature, who had probably sold my Tobacco-stopper for a few joes, or been deluded out of it by the Obeah Man, and was afraid of being flogged if discovery were made thereof, positively denied that I had given her anything beyond the half-dollar.
And, when the bamboo stoups were brought out, and three-quarters of a pint of good soup was served round not forgetting the Negroes, one of whom, after sucking it down, rubbed his stomach, and declared, with a grin, that it was very good Obeah- -the oddness of the scene came over me.
Stern found himself, with a strange, taut eagerness tingling all through him, facing the obeah and and not daring to turn his back. Retreat they must, he knew. Retreat, at once! Already in the forest he understood that heads were being lifted, beastlike ears were listening, brute eyes peering and ape-hands clutching the little, flint-pointed spears.
Lamh Laudher delayed a few minutes, and the Dead Boxer stood in the now silent crowd, awaiting his appearance, when accidentally glancing into the door, he started as if stung by a serpent. A flash and a glare of his fierce blazing eyes followed. "Ha! damnation! true as hell!" he exclaimed, "she's with him! Ha! the Obeah woman was right the Obeuh woman was right. Guilt, guilt, guilt! Ha!"
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