Viti An Account of a Government Mission to the Vitian Or Fijian Islands in the
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Some time after he again met him full of health, and on inquiry learnt the treatment adopted to bring about this change. Taken to a small empty house, the leper is stripped of every article of clothing, his body rubbed all over with green leaves, and then buried in them. A small fire is then kindled, and a few pieces of the Sinu gaga laid on it. As soon as the thick black smoke begins to ascend the leper is bound hand and foot, a rope fastened to his heels, by means of which he is drawn up over... the fire, so that his head is some fifteen inches from the ground, in the midst of z 338 A MISSION TO VITI. the poisonous smoke. The door is then closed and his friends retire a little distance, whilst the poor sufferer is left to cry and shout and plead from the midst of the suffocating stream ; but he is often allowed to remain for hours, and finally faints away. When he is thought sufficiently smoked the fire is removed, the slime scraped from the body, and deep gashes cut into the skin until the blood flows freely.
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