As before stated, another record of Tituba's testimony was made by Ezekiel Cheever, which is much less ample and particular than the one above presented. It omits entirely several very instructive and important parts--especially those which make known Tituba's earlier interviews with "the man;" those which fix the exact time when he first came to her; the exact time when Abigail was taken ill; and, more important still, those parts which describe the assemblage of spirits at Mr. Parris's house, and their deliberate inflictions of pains upon the children at the very time when their disordered conditions came upon them. Upham, by using Cheever's instead of the other account, failed to adduce several vastly important historic facts; the special facts which are essential to a fair presentation of the origin and nature of _Salem_ witchcraft. He nowhere recognizes the probably acute intellect, strong powers, persistent action, and inspiring presence of the _tall man with white hair and in serge coat_. Omitting these, he has but given us Hamlet with Hamlet left out. And this, too, not in ignorance, for he had seen Corwin's manuscript, which made clearly manifest the presence and doings of one spirit-personage especially, and taught many other facts that were not reconcilable with his theory. The tall man with white hair who visited Tituba on the evening of January 15, 1692, has such obvious and important connection with, and influence over, all the ostensible actors in the scenes which former witchcraft historians have depicted, as may revolutionize their theories, and teach the world that those expounders never traced their subject down to its genuine base; that they built, partly at least, upon the sands of either ignorance or misconception of the nature and actual source of what they discussed. There are some important differences in the two records of Tituba's testimony, even where the words and facts must have been the same. The following parallel passages present quite differing reports of what she said concerning her own knowledge of the devil:-- _Cheever._ _Corwin._ "Why do you hurt these "Why do you hurt these children?" "I do not hurt poor children? what harm them." "Who is it then?" have they done unto you?" "The devil, for aught I "They do no harm to me. know." "Did you ever I no hurt them at all." see the devil?" "The "Why have you done it?" devil come to me, and bid "I have done nothing. I me serve him." can't tell when the devil works." "What! Doth the devil tell you that he hurts them?" "No, he tells me nothing."