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MAKOLOLO AT MASS. 
Chap. XX. 
replied, Truly! they are just like you!” and all their fears 
seemed to vanish at once, for they went forward amongst the men, 
and the jolly tars, acting much as the Makololo would have done 
in similar circumstances, handed them a share of the bread and 
beef which they had for dinner. The commander allowed them 
to fire off a cannon; and having the most exalted ideas of its 
power, they were greatly pleased when I told them, ‘‘ That is 
what they put down the slave-trade with.” The size of the brig- 
of-war amazed them. ‘‘ It is not a canoe at all: it is a town I” 
The sailors’ deck they named the Kotlaand then, as a chmax 
to their description of this great ark, added, “ and what sort of 
a town is it that you must chmb up into with a rope ?” 
The effect of the politeness of the officers and men on their 
minds was most beneficial. They had behaved with the gxeatest 
kindness to me aU the way from Linyanti; and I now rose rapidly 
in their estimation, for, whatever they may have surmised before, 
they now saw that I was respected among my own countrymen, 
and always afterwards treated me with the greatest deference. 
On the 15th there was a procession and service of the mass in 
the cathedral; and wishing to show my men a place of worsliip, 
I took them to the church, which now serves as the cliief one of 
the See of Angola and Congo. There is an impression on some 
minds, that a gorgeous ritual is better calculated to inspire devo¬ 
tional feelings, than the simple forms of the Protestant worshij). 
But here the frequent genuflexions, changing of positions, bmming 
of incense, with the priests’ backs tmmed to the people, the laugh¬ 
ing, talking, and manifest kreverence of the singers, with firing 
of guns, &c., did not convey to the minds of my men the idea of 
adoration. I overheard them, in talking to each other, remark 
that ‘‘ they had seen the white men charming their demonsa 
phrase identical with one they had used when seeing the Balonda 
beating drums before their idols. 
In the beginrdng of August I suffered a severe relapse, which 
reduced me to a mere skeleton. I was then unable to attend to 
my men for a considerable time; but when in convalescence from 
this last attack, 1 was thankful to find that I was free from that 
lassitude, which, in my first recovery, showed the continuance of 
the malaria in the system. I found that my men, without prompt¬ 
ing, had estabhshed a brisk trade in firewood. They saUied forth 
