A Mnyamwezi. 



A Mheha. 



CHAP. XIX. 



THE CHAEACTEK AND RELIGION OF THE EAST AFRICANS; THEIR 

 GOVERNMENT, AND SLAVERY. 



The study of psychology in Eastern Africa is the study 

 of man's rudimental mind, when, subject to the agency 

 of material nature, he neither progresses nor retrogrades. 

 He would appear rather a degeneracy from the civilised 

 man than a savage rising to the first step, were it not 

 for his apparent incapacity for improvement. He has 

 not the ring of the true metal ; there is no rich nature, 

 as in the New Zealander, for education to cultivate. He 

 seems to belong to one of those childish races which, 

 never rising to man's estate, fall like worn-out links 

 from the great chain of animated nature. He unites 

 the incapacity of infancy with the unpliancy of age ; the 

 futility of childhood, and the credulity of youth, with 

 the scepticism of the adult and the stubbornness and 



