CHAPTER XXII

BAKULA FALSELY ACCUSED AND MURDERED

_Failure of various remedies--Witch-doctor engaged--Diagnosing a 274 case--Different “medicine men” are called in--Bakula denounces their trickery--Suspicion of witchcraft falls on Bakula--Native attempts to rid themselves of death, sickness, etc.--Preparing a corpse for the grave--Bakula is accused of bewitching his mother to death--He is guarded by Old Plaited-Beard through the night--He is taken to the hill-top--He falls and is done to death--Tumbu buries the mangled body of his friend_