expectorate near somebody else’s house.(1047) Negroes of Senegal, the Bissagos Archipelago, and some of the West Indian Islands, such as Guadeloupe and Martinique, are also careful to efface their spittle by pressing it into the ground with their feet, lest a sorcerer should use it to their hurt.(1048) Natives of Astrolabe Bay, in German New Guinea, wipe out their spittle for the same reason;(1049) and a like dread of sorcery prevents some natives of German New Guinea from spitting on the ground in presence of others.(1050) The Telugus say that if a man, rinsing his teeth with charcoal in the mornings, spits on the road and somebody else treads on his spittle, the spitter will be laid up with a sharp attack of fever for two or three days. Hence all who wish to avoid the ailment should at once efface their spittle by sprinkling water on it.(1051) (M176) If common folk are thus cautious, it is natural that kings and chiefs should be doubly so. In the Sandwich Islands chiefs were attended by a confidential servant bearing a portable spittoon, and the deposit was carefully buried every morning to put it out of the reach of sorcerers.(1052) On the Slave Coast of Africa, for the same reason, whenever a king or chief expectorates, the saliva is scrupulously gathered up and hidden or buried.(1053) The same precautions are taken for the same reason with the spittle of the chief of Tabali in Southern Nigeria.(1054) At Bulebane, in Senegambia, a French traveller observed a captive engaged, with an air of great importance, in covering over with sand all the spittle that fell from the lips of a native dignitary; the man used a small stick for the purpose.(1055) Page-boys, who carry tails of elephants, hasten to sweep up or cover with sand the spittle of the king of Ashantee;(1056) an attendant used to perform a similar service for the king of Congo;(1057) and a custom of the same sort prevails or used to prevail at the court of the Muata Jamwo in the interior of Angola.(1058) In Yap, one of the Caroline Islands, there are two great wizards, the head of all the magicians, whose exalted dignity compels them to lead a very strict life. They may eat fruit only from plants or trees which are grown specially for them. When one of them goes abroad the other must stay at home, for if they were to meet each other on the road, some direful calamity would surely follow. Though they may not smoke tobacco, they are allowed to chew a quid of betel; but that which they expectorate is carefully gathered up, carried away, and burned in a special manner, lest any evil-disposed person should get possession of the spittle and do their reverences a mischief by uttering a curse over it.(1059) Among the Guaycurus and Payaguas of Brazil, when a chief spat, the persons about him received his saliva on their hands,(1060) probably in order to prevent it from being misused by magicians.