se of putting down the trade of those that buy and sell black
men." They replied, "Truly! they are just like you!" and all their fears
seemed to vanish at once, for they went forward among the men, and
the jolly tars, acting much as the Makololo would have done in similar
circumstances, handed them a share of the bread and beef which they had
for dinner. The commander allowed them to fire off a cannon; and, having
the most exalted ideas of its power, they were greatly pleased when I
told them, "That is what they put down the slave-trade with." The size
of the brig-of-war amazed them. "It is not a canoe at all; it is a
town!" The sailors' deck they named "the Kotla"; and then, as a climax
to their description of this great ark, added, "And what sort of a town
is it that you must climb up into with a rope?"

The effect of the politeness of the officers and men on their minds was
most beneficial. They had behaved with the greatest kindness to me all
the way from Linyanti, and I now rose rapidly in their estimation;
for, whatever they may have surmised before, they now saw that I was
respected among my own countrymen, and always afterward treated me with
the greatest deference.

On the 15th there was a procession and service of the mass in the
Cathedral; and, wishing to show my men a place of worship, I took them
to the church, which now serves as the chief one of the see of Angola
and Congo. There is an impression on some minds that a gorgeous ritual
is better calculated to inspire devotional feelings than the simple
forms of the Protestant worship. But here the frequent genuflexions,
changing of positions, burning of incense, with the priests' back turned
to the people, the laughing, talking, and manifest irreverence of the
singers, with firing of guns, etc., did not convey to the minds of my
men the idea of adoration. I overheard them, in talking to each other,
remark that "they had seen the white men charming their demons;" a
phrase identical with one they had used when seeing the Balonda beating
drums before their idols.

In the beginning of August I suffered a severe relapse, which reduced
me to a mere skeleton. I was then unable to attend to my men for a
considerable time; but when in convalescence from this last attack, I
was thankful to find that I was free from that lassitude which, in my
first recovery, showed the continuance of the malaria in the system. I
found that my men, without prompting, had established