HEATHENISM. 
127 
from thetr customs, cat alone, ho is often compelled to suffer 
severely from hunger before another meal is ready. We 
boncoforth always worked into oach other's hands by sav- 
ing a little for each othor; and when some of the sticklers 
for uso and custom grumbled, I advised them to eat like 
men, and not liko vultures. 
As this was the first visit which Sckclctu had paid to this 
part of bis dominions, it was to many a 3oason of groat joy. 
Tho head-men of each village presented oxon, milk, and 
beer, moro than tho horde which accompanied him could 
devour, though their abilities in that lino are something 
wondorful. Tho people usually show their joy and work 
off their excitement in dances and songs. 
As Sckolotu had been waiting for mo at his mother’s, wo 
loft the town as soon as 1 arrived, and proceeded down the 
river. Our speed with the stream was very great, for in 
one day wo wont from Litofo to Gonyc, a distanco of forty- 
four miles of latitude; and if wo add to this tho windings 
of tho river, in longitudo tho distanco will not bo much loss 
than sixty geographical miles. At this rato wo soon 
reached Scshoko, and then tho town of Linyanti. 
1 had been, during a nine wooks’ tour, in closer contact 
with heathenism than I had over boon beforo; and though 
all, including tho chief, wero as kind and attentive to mo 
as possible, and thcro was no want of food, (oxon being 
slaughtered daily, somotimos ten at a timo, moro than suf 
ficient for tho wants of all,) yot to onduro tho dancing, 
roaring, and singing, tho jesting, anocdoies, grumbling, 
quarrelling, and murdering of those children of nature, 
scorned moro liko a severe penance than any thing I had 
boforo mot with in tho course of my missionary duties. I 
took thonco a moro intonse disgust at heathenism than I 
had beforo, and formed a greatly-elevated opinion of the 
latent effects of missions in tho south, among tribes which 
are reported to have been as savage as tho Makololo. The 
indirect benefits which, to a casual observer, lio beneath the 
surface and are inappreciable, in reference to tho probable 
