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natives of CafFraria are the only savages 
on the southern continent of Africa who 
entertain any idea of a Supreme Being. 
Others have asserted, that all the inha- 
bitants of these regions are totally ignorant, 
not only of such an existence, but are also 
strangers to any opinion respecting a future 
state. 
To be convinced how the matter really 
stood, I embraced the present opportunity, 
and entered into conversation on this sub- 
ject with the chief, through the medium 
of our interpreters. After giving him a 
further description of the tempest, and the 
miseries we had so recently endured, I 
added, " that, as it was the pleasure of the 
Almighty to afflict his creatures, it would 
be impious in us to repine at his will.*' 
The savage, after some consideration, de- 
clared he did not understand what I meant 
by the Almighty. I explained to him my 
ideas of the Divinity. That he was a Being 
of such transcendent power, as to create 
the world on which we lived, the sun, moon, 
and stars J and that they all moved and 
were directed by his hand. His counte- 
