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Some of the chiefs have fifty or sixty wives ; one had as 
many as four hundred. In all cases these wives are slaves 
and drudges, and only minister to their lord's pleasure, and 
vanity. Sometimes a wife will have a house to herself; at 
other times, five or six will live together in one house. 
The Waguha people are very superstitious. They bury 
their dead generally in a sitting posture with their clothes 
on, and with mats spread around. They use charms against 
evil spirits, and believe in a kind of heaven, in which brave 
men dwell, while the bad and cowardly are shut out. In 
many villages, at the entrance, and almost before each hut, 
are to be found images of idols, carved in imitation of the 
human figure, or of animals. They have also some idea of 
a supreme spirit, who dwells in some indefinite, unknown 
place; to this unknown place they think that spirits go 
after death, to be judged by the great spirit. Some mission- 
aries suppose that the natives have obtained their ideas on 
this point from the Arabs. Sometimes a little hut is pre- 
pared for departed spirits, in order that on their return they 
may feel that they are not uncared for, and that they have 
some place in which to lodge. Should a native dream of 
his departed friend, he interprets the dream into a visit from 
his spirit, and follows out, superstitiously, any hints which 
might have been given in the dream. 
Speaking of the dangers which had sometimes surrounded 
the mission-agents in their work at Ujiji, Mr. Hore says : 
" The way that our mere presence has worked upon the 
guilty fears of the Arab colonists of Ujiji is indeed wonder- 
ful. The day we arrived there, the Ujiji slave-market was 
closed. They have hindered and opposed us in every con- 
ceivable way, but have been baffled on every hand. First 
they tried to frighten us — it was no use. Thomson said to 
them in full council : ' Kill us you may ; for every one you 
