I. 
CHAPTER XXVII. 
FUTURE STATE. 
All the tribes with which I became ac- 
quainted believe in a future state of being, 
but their views of that state are very differ- 
ent. The Tirainies speak of good die, and 
bad die: meaning that some die happy, and 
others miserable. They also speak of good 
live and bad live in eternity: meaning that 
some will be happy there, whilst others will 
be unhappy. 
Some of the Mendi tribe believe that 
persons will sustain the same relation to 
each other in eternity, that they do in this 
life, that those who are headmen here, will 
be headmen there., and those who are slaves 
here, will be slaves in the future world. In 
view of this belief, a headman on the Boom 
river, during our stay in Africa, sent a com- 
pany of men to make war upon a town to 
kill slaves for his son, who had been killed 
in a previous engagement by the people of 
that town. His people met with a second 
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