. Across Australia . Erlikilliaka promptly retired to what heconsidered a safe distance, which was out of sight, andthen TunguUa bent forward till his head was level withhis knees and began to jerk the stick, time after time,backward between his legs, mumbling all the time afierce incantation : Ya pa il perta : ya pa il kari: yakurti wali: yung wenti kari: ya pa alkari. When hehad finished, the excitement, aided probably by a rush ofblood to his head, evidently made him feel dizzy, and hedeclared that the evil magic had gone into him and thathe felt, as he looked, very bad. It took some time t
. Across Australia . Erlikilliaka promptly retired to what heconsidered a safe distance, which was out of sight, andthen TunguUa bent forward till his head was level withhis knees and began to jerk the stick, time after time,backward between his legs, mumbling all the time afierce incantation : Ya pa il perta : ya pa il kari: yakurti wali: yung wenti kari: ya pa alkari. When hehad finished, the excitement, aided probably by a rush ofblood to his head, evidently made him feel dizzy, and hedeclared that the evil magic had gone into him and thathe felt, as he looked, very bad. It took some time tocalm him down, but at length we assured him that,in our medicine chest, we had a plentiful supply ofpowerful magic that could eiFectually counteract theinfluence of evil magic far more potent than any thatthe pointing stick contained, and that he need have nofear. Magic is a very real thing to the savage. It wasonly after considerable persuasion that the old man hadconsented to show us how the poison stick was
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