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Giant Tree of Africa

gives them influence, and makes them earth, as they would the bodies of other respected by other negroes, who look men, they would draw upon themselves upon and honor them as sorcerers; but the celestial malediction. Hence, the after death this respect is succeeded by a monstrous Baobab serves as their resting. kind of horror. These superstitious peo- place. It is a strange sentiment which ple imagine that if they consigned the leads barbarous people to bury their poets body of one of these sorcerers to the in the heart of this vegetable king.