A Visit to Banza Chisalla. 127 
the Fetishman for the protection of their stores 
against the prigging chiefs. Yet in Tuckeys time 
there was only one thief at Boma, a boy who stole 
a knife, confessed, and restored it. During a 
month’s residence amongst the pagans of the in¬ 
terior, where the houses swarmed with serviles, 
and where my outfit, which was never locked up, 
must have represented a plate-chest in England, 
not the smallest article was “ found missing,” nor 
could anything be touched except by collusion 
with the head man. 
