380 GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. 
brandy, and let the fetiche alone. Being absent for some 
time, he said, on his return, that he had been at the vil- 
lage; that the King and his nobles were holding a pala- 
ver, whether they should venture the fetiche or not, and 
that they had asked him, whether he thought white men 
would dare fire at it, and on hisanswering in the affirmative, 
they exclaimed, ‘“* mindeele zaambie m’poonga,”’ white 
men are gods.” The Chenoo made his appearance the fol- 
lowing morning, but without the fetiche, and was very de- 
sirous to see the fowling piece fired, in which he was gra- 
tified, and on perceiving the ball strike the mark fired at, 
he seemed very much astonished, and went away without 
saying a word. In the evening he returned, with nearly 
the whole of the inhabitants; begged they would not 
think of firing at his fetiche, for if they should hit it, and — 
this was known to the neighbouring Chenoos, they would 
all make war upon him immediately ; an intreaty which 
was uttered with so much real axiety in his countenance 
as to leave no doubt of his being in earnest. 
Besides the individual fetiches which are selected by a 
priest, or by the caprice of the wearer, various striking 
objects of nature are held in general estimation. The 
Taddi Enzazzi, or lightning stone, and the fetisch rock, . 
are objects of this kind. ‘The latter is considered as the 
peculiar residence of Seembi, the spirit which presides 
over the river.. On the side of some rocks inhabited by 
fishermen, round the point of Soonda, are a number of 
raised figures, formed apparently with sand and ashes and 
laid on wet, which, when indurated, appear like stone sculp-. 
