They spoke but little English, and it was mostly through a few words that Alec Ross knew, of the Peake, macumba, or Alberga tribes that we could talk to each other at all.
"Australia Twice Traversed, The Romance of Exploration Australia Twice Traversed. The Romance Of Exploration, Being A Narrative Compiled From The Journals Of Five Exploring Expeditions Into And Through Central South Australia, And Western Australia, From 1"
Ernest Giles
This common, medieval belief lingers into macumba, voodoo and loa-spirit trees.
"Point Spread Poems"
Paul Cameron Brown