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WESTERN AFRICA. 
about the same hight. Under them they 
have pieces of China ware, and glass, or 
something of the kind. If they can get 
from white men what they cannot make 
themselves, if only broken glass, they re- 
gard it so sacred as to be worthy a place in 
the "Devil house. 55 
They are emphatically " Devil 55 worship- 
pers, and most profoundly selfish in their 
worship, as in most other things. We must 
not forget, however, that in their present 
condition they are not capable of exercising 
other than selfish motives. They have no 
systematic form of worship, but differ in 
this as much as people do in America. 
They evince most clearly that " man is a 
religious animal, 55 and, as might be suppos- 
ed, in the absence of Divine revelation or 
any guide to direct them, they are deeply 
sunken in Idolatry, superstition, and selfish- 
ness. They demonstrate the declaration 
that the thoughts and the imaginations of 
men are evil continually. 
The only reason why our theological 
views are not as foolish, and corrupting as 
theirs, and that we are not believers in 
