RELIGION, 



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of our childhood rudely systematized, the earliest 

 dawn of faith, a creation of fear which ignores 

 love. Thus they have not, in our sense of the 

 words, God or devil,^ heaven or hell, soul or 

 spirit. 



' Mulungu ' is the Mnyika's synonym of the 

 Kafir Umdali, Uhlanga, and Unkulumkulu, 

 the Morungo of Tete, the Unghorray of Mada- 

 gascar, and the Omakuru of the Damaras. 

 Amongst the most advanced trihes it denotes 

 a vague kind of God : here it means any good 

 or evil ghost, especially of a Pagan. The haunt- 

 ing Moslem is distinguished as P'hepo, the plural 

 of Upepo (a whirlwind, or ' devil,' generally 

 called Chamchera). As amongst all Petish 

 worshippers, the evestrum which they call 

 Koma — pronounced like Goma — meaning ety- 

 mologically 'one departed,' is a suhject of 

 horror ; hut of the dead they say Yuzi sira — he 

 is ended. They cannot comprehend a future 

 state, yet they place sheep and goats, poultry 

 and palm wine, upon the tombs of their dead. 

 It is a modern European error (Rev. Mr J. P. 

 Schon and Eev. Mr Sam. Crowther) to suppose 

 that drops of liquor spilt, as by the Brass men, 



^ The Moslem "Wasawahili adapts the modified Arabic form, 

 * Shaytani.' 



