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:among them. I imagine that the facts upon which this o 

 pinion is founded have never been fufficiently inve&igateefc 

 The Wanzey-tree, under which their kings are crownco. is 

 avowedly worshipped for a god in every tribe. They hrwe 

 certain Hones alfo, for an object of their devotion, which I 

 never could fufEciently underftand to give further descrip- 

 tion of them. But they certainly pay adoration to the moon, 

 efpecially the new moon, for of this I have frequently 

 been a witnefs. They likewife worfhip certain liars in parti- 

 cular pofitions, and at different times of the year, and are, 

 in my opinion, ftill in the ancient religion of Sabaifm. All 

 of them believe that, after death, they are to live again; 

 that they are to rife with their body, as they were on 

 earth, to enter into another life they know not where, but 

 they are to be in a Hate of body infinitely more perfect 

 than the prefent, and are to die no more, nor fuffer grief, 

 ficknefs, or trouble of any kind. They have very obfcure, or 

 no ideas at all of future punifhment; but their reward is to 

 be a moderate Hate of enjoyment with the fame family and 

 perfons with which they lived on earth. And this is very 

 nearly the fame belief with the other Pagan nations in A- 

 frica with which I have converfed intimately ; and this is 

 what writers generally call a belief of the immortality of 

 the foul. Nor did I ever know one favage that had a more 

 diftinct idea of it, or ever feparated it from the immortality 

 of the body. 



The Galla to the fouth are moflly Mahometans ; on the 

 caft and wed chiefly Pagans. They intermarry with each 

 other, but fuffer no ftrangers to live among them. The 

 Moors, however, by courage, patience, and attention, have 

 found out the means of trading with them in a tolerable 



degree 



