370 THE FOREST AND THE FIELD. 



he lay howling like a bull, for he was not able to 

 recover his feet without assistance. His Majesty 

 then became sullen; for my laughing at him 

 wounded his feelings — he had suffered in person as 

 well as in dignity : so I left him. To my surprise, 

 Captain Wylde told me the old reprobate had 

 been for some time in England, and that he and 

 his wife — who is also his sister — had been feted 

 and lionised by the Evangelical party as a great 

 gun, and a bright specimen of an African Christian 

 king. It was even proposed to present him with 

 £20,000 to build a church, which the wily old 

 scoundrel declared he would endow with vast 

 possessions, but as this was a matter touching the 

 pocket it was allowed to drop. 



I next visited the celebrated " Juju house," a 

 large shed ornamented with rows of human skulls 

 and other dried-up remains of both sexes, that in 

 Naples would have been worth a small fortune as 

 "relics of Saints," although a more disgusting 

 exhibition it is impossible to imagine. The people 

 of Bonny do not attempt to disguise their being 



