A fine baby is born. His proud mother fastens round his neck the seeds of the “Rhiza” to keep away convulsions, a piece of “Mooti” or medicinal wood to prevent illness generally. The father gave a Leopard’s tooth to hang on, “to make him brave.” He takes measels, followed by chronic cough and wasting “Phtisis.” An “Isanuse” is consulted as above described. He decides on the illness and advises a certain Gqira. This Gqira (Native doctor) is sent for and a goat killed for his entertainment. He doses the little patient with infusion of various herbs, frog’s feet, baboon’s hair, lizard’s tails and other items of his grotesque pharmacopœia. He then hangs some infallible charms, tied up in the inevitable bag round the child’s neck and departs next morning with an ox or other good fee, promising certain cure: Result nil. Another “Gqira” a most celebrated practitioner is sent for. This one requires a fat black ox to be killed. With the blood of this animal he freely sprinkles all the members of the family, the little patient getting an extra share. After speaking in most slighting terms of the other doctor’s treatment, he makes a powder of burnt bones of several kinds of snakes and birds, then, making small incisions with a sharp stick across the chest and round the neck, arms and legs of the patient, he rubs the powder well into them. After this he applies a plaster of fresh cowdung to the sick child’s chest, and wrapping him up in the skin of the black ox killed on the previous evening, he carries him out of the hut and lays him in the middle of the cattle kraal. It is now noon and until sundown the “Gqira” dances and chants around his patient in the most grotesque and frantic manner conceivable. Just at sundown, he falls down in a swoon or fit, foaming at the mouth and yelling horribly, presently he comes to, and crawling over to where the poor little child is looking on with horrified eyes from the wraps, he inserts his hands amongst the folds of the skin and extracts a lizard about 4 in. in length, and holds it up to the gaze of the admiring and applauding crowd. Here was the cause of the malady, rid of which the child will at once mend! The mother weeps tears of joy as she loosens the child from its unsavoury durance. The “Gqira” leaves next morning having established his reputation; taking as fees two of the best cattle. Result nil. As the child got worse, the mother becomes convinced that someone has bewitched him, and goes to consult one of the wizards or witch doctors “Awamatambo,” who is believed to be able to foretell the future and reveal the secrets of the past, by the method known as throwing the “Indawuli” (Dutch, dolossi bones). These are the metatarsal or metacarpal bones of sheep and antelopes variously coloured. They are thrown, about a dozen, like dice; and the “Gqira” studies them and reads the answer.