BURNING THE IDOL. 603

the door. We immediately seized upon him, stopped his mouth,
and tied his hands behind him, and led him to the idol, where we
gagged him that he might not make a noise, tied his fect also
together, and left him on the ground.

Two of us then waited at the door, expecting that another
would come out to see what the matter was; but we waited so
long till the third man came back to us, and then nobody coming
out, we knocked again gently, and immediately out came two
more, and we served them just in the same manner, but were
obliged to go all with them, and lay them down by the idol, some
distance from one another. When going back, we found two more
were come out to the door, and a third stood between them within
the door. We seized the two, and immediately tied them, when
the third stepping back, and crying out, my Scots merchant went
in after him, and taking out a composition we had made, that
would only smoke and stink, he set fire to it, and threw it in
among them. By that time the other Scotsman and my man,
taking charge of the two men who were already bound, and tied
together also by the arm, led them away to the idol, and left
them there, to see if their idol would relieve them, making haste
back to us.

When the fuze we had thrown in had filled the hut with so
much smoke that they were almost suffocated, we then threw in a
small leather bag of another kind, which flamed like a candle, and
following it in, we found there were but four people left, who, it
seems, were two men and two women, and, as we supposed, had
been about some of their diabolic sacrifices. They appeared, in
short, frighted to death, at least so as to sit trembling and stupid,
and not able to speak either, for the smoke.

In a word, we took them, bound them as we had the others, and
all without any noise. I should have said, we brought.them out
of the house or hut first ; for, indeed, we were not able to bear the
smoke any more than they were. When we had done this, we
carried them all together to the idol. When we came there, we
fell to work with him. And, first, we daubed him all over, and
his robes also, with tar and such other stuff as we had, which was
tallow mixed with brimstone; then we stopped his eyes, ears,