80 ‘CAPTAIN TUCKEY’S NARRATIVE. 
even qualified to lead his fellow negroes into the path of sal- 
vation, as appeared from a diploma with which he was fur- 
nished. ‘This man and another of the Christians had been 
taught to write their own names and that of Saint Antonio, 
and could also read the Romish litany in Latin. All these 
converts were loaded with crucifixes, and satchels containing 
the pretended relics of saints, certainly of equal efficacy 
with the monkey’s bone of their pagan brethren ; of this we 
had a convincing proof in each vociferating invocations to 
their respective patrons, to send -us a strong wind ;_ neither 
the fetiche or Saint Antonio having condescended to hear 
their prayers. The Christian priest was however somewhat 
loose in his practical morality, having, as he assured us, one 
wife and five concubines; and added, that St. Peter, in con- 
fining him to one wife, did not prohibit his solacing himself 
with as many handmaids as he could manage. All our vi- 
sitors, whether Christians or idolators, had figures raised on 
their skins, in cicatrices, and had also the two upper front 
teeth filed away on the near sides, so as to form a large 
opening, into which they stuck their pipes, and which is so 
perfectly adapted to the purpose that I thought it expressly 
formed for it; until on enquiry I learned, that, as well as 
the raised figures on the skin, it was merley ornamental, 
and principally done with the idea of rendering themselves 
