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ohild for the purpose, yet I had none. As 1 replied that 1 
had four children, and should be very soriy if my chief were 
to take my little girl and give her away, and that I would 
prefer this child to remain and carry water for her own 
mother, he thought I was dissatisfied with her size, and 
sent for one a head taller. After many explanations of our 
abhorrence of slavery, and how displeasing it must be to 
God to see his children selling one another and giving each 
other so much grief as this child’s mother must feel, I 
declined her also. If I could have taken her into my family 
for the purpose of instruction, and then returned her as a 
freo woman, according to a promise I should have made to 
the parents, I might have done so; but to take her away, 
and probably never be able to socure her return, would have 
produced no good effect on the minds of the Balonda; they 
would not then have seen evidence of our hatred to slavery, 
and the kind attentions of my friends would, as it almost 
always does in similar cases, have turned the poor thing’s 
head. 
Shinte was most anxious to see the pictures of the magic 
lantern ; but fever had so weakening an effect, and I had 
such violent action of the heart, with buzzing in the ears, 
that I could not go for several days; w T hen I did go for the 
purpose he had his principal men and the same crowd of 
court beauties near him as at the reception. The first 
picture exhibited was Abraham about to slaughter his son 
Isaac : it was shown as largo as life, and the uplifted knife 
was in the act of striking the lad; tho Balonda men re- 
marked that the picture was much more like a god than 
tho things of wood and clay they worshipped. I explained 
that this man was the first of a race to whom God had 
given the Biblo we now held, and that among his children 
our Savior appeared. The ladies listened with silent awe; 
but, when I moved the slide, the uplifted daggor moving 
toward them, they thought it was to bo sheathed in their 
bodies instead of Isaac’s. “ Mother ' mother 1” all shouted 
at once, and off they rushed, helter-skelter, tumbling pell- 
