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The West Virginia News
Ronceverte, Greenbrier County, West Virginia
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Dugald Campbell describes judgment by lot in Central and West Africa: suspects swim in crocodile-infested waters in the west or smoke a pipe of tobacco and red peppers in the central region; survival without injury or completion without spitting proves innocence, though rarely achieved.
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Judgment by lot still exists among several peoples of Central and West Africa, according to the story of Dugald Campbell, the great Canadian explorer. In West Africa, any person suspected of an offense has for a certain time to swim in water infested with crocodiles. If he comes out of the ordeal without injury—and this rarely happens—he is pronounced innocent. In Central Africa the accused person has to smoke an enormous pipe filled with tobacco and red peppers. If he succeeds in smoking the contents of the pipe, without spitting once—and this, too, happens rarely—he is freed of all suspicion.
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Central And West Africa
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rarely successful; innocent if survives crocodile swim without injury or smokes pipe without spitting.
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Judgment by lot persists among peoples of Central and West Africa. In West Africa, suspects swim in crocodile-infested waters for a certain time. In Central Africa, accused smoke enormous pipe of tobacco and red peppers without spitting.