I04 Wanderings in Eastern Africa, 
oi God, and they therefore think of Him, when they / 
think of Him at all, with horror ! 
Such being their notions of the Supreme Being, it is 
not to be expected that they feel themselves responsible 
to Him in any degree. They know nothing of God as 
a judge before whom they must stand, and to whom 
they must render an account of their deeds. Of sin 
or moral delinquency they have no sense. They 
recognize no law above themselves ; they follow their 
instincts, their impulses, their conscience, such as it 
is ; and in doing so they conceive themselves to be 
doing what is right. They are no doubt conscious of 
violating at times the law of their own minds, but 
they neither appear to feel compunction nor to ap- 
prehend punishment. Of their duty towards God 
they have not the least conception ; they are lost to 
the first four commandments of the decalogue ; but 
of their duty towards their neighbours they have 
pretty clear ideas. The last six commandments are 
written upon their hearts, and, on the whole, they 
follow the light they have much more fully than is 
generally supposed of the savage ; at any rate, they 
regard their own conduct with perfect complacence. 
The charge of being sinners they repel with indig- 
nation, for they believe themselves to be one of the 
best-disposed and best-behaved of peoples. 
Though they have no idea of prayer in any true 
sense, " Ku voya Mulungu " (to pray God) is an ex- 
pression which is commonly heard among them. 
What they mean by this it is very difficult to ascer- 
tain, simply because they have no clear ideas upon the 
subject themselves. The exorcism of evil spirits, the 
propitiating of the angry powers, and the supplica- . 
