This may last sometimes two or three Months, sometimes two or three dayes.  Now their Friends reckoning it to proceed from the Devil, do go to him and promise him a reward if he will cure them.  Sometimes they are cured, and sometimes die.  The People do impute this madness to some breach of promise that the Party affected had made to the Devil, or else for eating some fruit or Betel-leaves dedicated to him:  For they do dedicate some fruit-trees to the Devil; and this they do, to prevent People from stealing them (which few will dare to do after such a Dedication) and also to excuse themselves in not bestowing their fruit upon any that might ask or desire it.  But before this dedicated fruit is lawful for them to use, they must carry some of it to the Temple.

[The Devil’s Voice often heard.] This for certain I can affirm, That oftentimes the Devil doth cry with an audible Voice in the Night; ’tis very shrill almost like the barking of a Dog.  This I have often heard my self; but never heard that he did any body any harm.  Only this observation the Inhabitants of the Land have made of this Voice, and I have made it also, that either just before or very suddenly after this Voice, the King always cuts off People.  To believe that this is the Voice of the Devil these reasons urge, because there is no Creature known to the Inhabitants, that cry like it, and because it will on a sudden depart from one place, and make a noise in another, quicker than any fowl could fly:  and because the very Dogs will tremble and shake when they hear it; and ’tis so accounted by all the People.

This Voice is heard only in Cande Uda, and never in the Low Lands.  When the Voice is near to a Chingulaye’s house, he will curse the Devil, calling him Geremoi goulammah, Beef-eating Slave be gone, be damned, cut his Nose off, beat him a pieces.  And such like words of Railery, and this they will speak aloud with noise, and passion, and threatning.  This Language I have heard them bestow upon the Voice; and the Voice upon this always ceaseth for a while, and seems to depart, being heard at a greater distance.

[Their Sacrifice to the chief Devil.] When smaller Devils do fail them, they repair unto the great one.  Which they do after this manner.  They prepare an Offering of Victuals ready dressed; one dish whereof is always a red Cock.  Which they do as frequently offer to the Devil, as Papists do Wax-Candles to Saints.  This Offering they carry out into a remote place in the Woods, and prostrate it to the honour and service of the Grand Devil, before which there are men in an horrible disguise like Devils, with Bells about their Legs and Doublets of a strange fashion, dancing and singing, to call, it it were possible, the Devil himself to come and eat of the Sacrifices they have brought; the sick Party is all the while present.

[Their Festivals.] I have hitherto spoke of their ordinary and daily Worship, and their private and occasional Devotions; besides these they have their solemn and annual Festivals.  Now of these there are two sorts, some belonging to their Gods that govern the Earth, and all things referring to this life; and some belonging to the Buddou whose Province is to take care of the Soul and future well-being of Men.