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the story, O King"

"Do my ears hear a true tale, Nandie?" asked Panda "Or is this woman a

liar like others?"

"I think not, my Father; see, here is the muti [medicine] which Nahana

and I found hid in the doorway of the hut that I have kept unopened till

this day"

And she laid on the ground a little leather bag, very neatly seith

sinews, and fastened round its neck with a fibre string

Panda directed one of the councillors to open the bag, which the h, since evidently he feared its evil influence,

pouring out its contents on to the back of a hide shield, which was

then carried round so that we ht all look at them These, so far as

I could see, consisted of soh bone, such as ht have come from the skeleton of an infant, that

had a little stopper of wood in its orifice, and what I took to be the

fang of a snake

Panda looked at the: "Coic, and tell us

what is this medicine"