iv.] RELIGIO US ST A TK. 1 37 



of one of Bishop Butler's masterly sermons on Human 

 Nature. 



Our traveller accounts for Caffres and Bushmen appear- 

 ing so Godless, from their want of reverence even for what 

 they know to be holy and true, and from their being de- 

 stitute of any form of public worship, or of idols, or of 

 formal prayer and sacrifices 1 . 



In the dialogue between the medical doctor and the 

 rain-doctor, the latter acknowledges the being of God, but 

 accuses him with favouring unfairly the white man in com- 

 parison with the black, saying that he has "no heart" to- 

 wards the negro 2 . 



Senhor Candido, the Portuguese judge among the natives 

 on the east coast, told our traveller that the natives of this 

 region have clear ideas of a Supreme Being, the maker and 

 governor of all things, whom they call "Morimo," u Mo- 

 lunga," "Reza," "Mpambe," in the different dialects spoken. 

 In undergoing the ordeal they lift up their hands towards 

 heaven, calling on God to witness their innocence. The 

 Barotse name Him " Nyampi," and the Balonda " Zambi 3 ." 



The tribes in the neighbourhood of the Victoria falls 

 call the rainbow formed by their vapour, " motse oa ba- 

 rium," " the pestle of the gods." On this our traveller 

 beautifully remarks — although they could not understand 

 and imitate his true character : — " Here they could approach 

 the emblem, and see it stand steadily above the blustering 

 uproar below — a type of Him who sits supreme — alone un- 

 changeable, though ruling over all changing things 4 ." 



It appears that most of the South Africans have vague 

 ideas about the Morimo and Barimo as objects of worship ; 

 some of the tribes regarding them as invisible, mighty, and 

 immortal beings. 



Although the missionaries have adopted the word 



1 Travels, p. 158. 3 Ibid. p. •24. 



3 Ibid. p. 641. 4 Ibid. p. 524. 



