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The heathen philosophers were content with mere guesses 

 at the future of the soul. The elder prophets were content 

 with the Divine support in life and in death. The later 

 prophets advance further, as Isaiah : " Thy dead men shall 

 live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake, 

 and sing, ye that dwell in the dust : for thy dew is as the 

 dew of herbs. The earth also shall cast out her dead." 

 This, taken with the sublime spectacle of Hades in the four- 

 teenth chapter, seems a forecast of the future, but Jesus 

 instructed Mary and her sister and Lazarus; and Martha 

 without hesitation spoke of the resurrection at the last day 

 as a familiar doctrine, far in advance of the Mosaic law in 

 which she had been reared. 



The Arabs tell me that Monyungo, a chief, was sent for 

 five years among the Watuta to learn their language and 

 ways, and he sent his two sons and a daughter to Zanzibar 

 to school. He kills many of his people, and says they are so 

 bad that if not killed they would murder strangers. Once 

 they were unruly, when he ordered some of them to give 

 their huts to Mohamad; on refusing, he put fire to them, 

 and they soon called out, " Let them alone ; we will retire." 

 He dresses like an Arab, and has ten loaded guns at his 

 sitting-place, four pistols, two swords, several spears, and 

 two bundles of the Batuta spears : he laments that his father 

 filed his teeth when he was young. The name of his very 

 numerous people is Bawungu, country Urungu : his other 

 names are Ironga, Mohamu. 



The Basango, on the other hand, consider their chief as- 

 a deity, and fear to say aught wrong, lest he should hear 

 them : they fear both before him and when out of sight. 



The father of Merere' never drank pombe or beer, and 

 assigned as a reason that a great man who had charge of 

 people's lives should never become intoxicated so as to do evil. 

 Bange he never smoked, but in council smell ed at a bunch 

 of it, in order to make his people believe that it had a great 



