CHAPTER XVII. 
MARKING TIME— COUNTING, <fcC. 
Their only way of marking time, is by the 
moon, and the seasons of the year. To tell 
how long since an event transpired, they say, 
"so many moons, 1 ' or " so many rainy seas- 
ons," have elapsed. They know of no divis- 
ion of time into weeks, hours and minutes. 
They have no knowledge of a Sabbath or 
day of rest. If the Fowler theory be cor- 
rect, however (viz., that we do not require 
the seventh part of our time in which to 
rest, unless we labor too hard the six days 
appointed by God in which to labor ), they 
do not need a Sabbath. But away with 
such infidelity. 
One day as I visited a town some ten 
miles distant from Good Hope station, I was 
forcibly impressed with the fact that the in- 
fluence of Mendi Mission was being felt in 
establishing the sacredness of the Holy Sab- 
bath even there. The headman of the town 
remarked that he was going to bring us 
