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Show 2~2 AI'PEXOfX TO NOTES. tombs. • • * This prince (.\nqol:t Chih':l:;!;ni) IJCI'JlllH' n p;1·rat warrior, enlarged tho An~olic domi111on~, anti di,•d mueh n·~n·tt{•d; and wus succocdcd by his son, D:unLi Aup:oh. Uulike his fatbn, he is described as a monstN of cruelty, and, happily fot· hiRsuldPt:tll, his reign was of short d11mtion. Ne 1·l•rthelr~~. he wns lJln·icd with great magnificence; nnd, aceonlin::;: to the !J:tdmn1us custom of tho eounlry, a mound was erected 01er his ~ran', filh'l41 11 ith the bones of human Yi ctims, who had been sncriliced to his mnncs." "He was succeeded Ly Ngula Cbilnt~ni, a warlike nnd cwel princ<' who cn.rried his vi ctorious :mns within a few lenguPs of Loando: * • * Intoxic:ttcd with llllCC'CS.'I, ho fancied himself a god, atHl claimed divine lJOuours. * * * Ngi11,;!;ha was clcctC'J his successor, n. princf.l of so cru<>l a dillpmdtiou that all his su!Ucd~ wi .. dtetl l1is death; which, hnppily for them, soon anivcd. NrvNthelcs~ ho was buried with the mmal pi•mp, wilh tht' 11/:'UalnundJt'l' of ;;;lcrili~·rs. His 1:10n anti sucecs:<or, ll:.ndi J\n:;ula, dis<'uver('J a di"po::;ition stilt more cruel than his l:lt!J(•r'"· * * * 'l'o counh•md lh N•n nn1! other idolatrous rit .. s, and to f'.uft<:JJ tlwt hadJarity of lll:UlllPr,<; which so generally prevailed, tlw Portu::;ur~c, '' lt(·n lht·y e ... taLiir<lwt! themselves in tho country, (1&7!:1,) W('rc at ~-;n•at JmiJtli to introduce tilt~ invnhmblc !Jlc~sings uf l'hri:::tianity. * ;.:. 'll· :-itl that from Ow .)Par 1580 to 1500, we arc infOrmed, nu h;s~ :L nmnhc1· than ~0,000 wc1·o converted, :md publicly profC'sscd f'hri'itianity." +:· * ·:< "Her r cmainH w<'rc 110 HOoner dt·positPd U<•:-ide her l'l islrrs, in tho church which she h:-ul Inti]!, th:1n l\lona Ziugha. dl•clarcll his aLhorTenco to Christianity, and t'C\'i'·ed tho horrid Oin~:tn rite~. Fi,•o women, of tho first r,1nk, were Uy his (Jrdcrs buried iu the queen'll gra.,·e, ftllll upward:-: of lOrty pt'r:;;t~ns of distinrtion were next E=acri· ticed. * * * H e wrote tho 'ieproy nt Lo:Hldo, that ltl' lt:ul abjured the Christian reli~iun, which he snid ho had rurmcrlv em. bmecd merely out uf rc.-;pcet * ·~ * to his qnrcn, and t!t7tt ho now returneU to thn ane~rnt sed or the Gin gas. That there mi~ht remain no doulJt or bis tSinrrt·it.Y in that dP('!aration, he rulloweJ iJ with the 8a.criHco or a p;1·t·at mm!l)cl· of YictimK, in honour of thrir b loody and idolatrous rite.-;, with tho delltruction of all Cln·i::;tian churches and ehnpcl.<:, and with the pnsccution of the Uhriotians in n.ll parts of his kingdum." And we llHI.J ]l('n~ r('mflrk, thn.t {'\'Cil the nations of tho coast could ti~~le1~Fod~~r~st~:~J~~~', 1 ~o l\~~~s~~x~~~\~~:a:;n~~c~~g~~· ~~~· t~~t:·~~,:~S:~~~~cf the s1n.Yc·tmdo with Chri~tian nations. Sec also o .... born's Collection "of Trnvcls, YOI. ii. p. 5J7: Mod. llnircrtial Jl ist. \'ol. 43; and J::Jin. l::ncyc. vol. ii. pp. 107, 100, l 10, 11:.:. o,·er two hundred _Yf':\rs :Jg-n, nnd durin_::!; the l'('i,t.;n of Charks J. of J~ngland, Sir 'J'lH,m:ts llerh('rt, ( 11 1Jt Lord J.:dwanl Jl crbcrt, who wrolo n. deistical IJook, entitled "'l'l'11!lt,") a p;cntlcman of most clc\'ated connection, and a schubr dc,·ofcd tv rwic twc antl grncr:li Jitcrnture. with a mind nUonwd by poetry. and influcn('l'il L_y tit<> strongr!'t impul.:;es o: human fiJmpatlJy; amlouc, of whom Lord .Fairfax ~aid, " lie travel\NI. 110t -with lucre sottcU, ]_:ut went for kuow:edg~-nu1l !Je gClt it!" I A I.' PENDIX 'fO NOTES. '!'his n.uthor, in his Tour in Africn, writes thus: "'J'hc inhnlJitnnts hero nlon"' tho Golden coast of Guinea, n.nd HC'nin, bounded with 'l'ombotu, (Timbuctoo,) Gualata, and ,\lrlli~. ana watered hy the .c;reat ri\'er Niger, but, eJSpeci:dly in the .1\lcditrnn.nenn (inland) parts, know no God, nor arc nt nil willing to be in~tmcled by natuJ·p' Scire nihil jucuu<.lissimunt.' H owbeit tbc Di vel, who will not want his ccrcmonic, has iuf'ufled prodiJ;iouR itlolatry into their hC'nrtf'l, enuugh to rcli!:<h his pallet, n.nJ aggrnndi;.:c thetr torturPs. when hn gets power to fry their sou ls, as the raging: sun has·8corchcd tl1PiL· role-black cnrcasscs. * * * 'l'hoso countric!'! n.ro full of blackskinned wretches, ri ch in !'nrth, ns abounding with tho best minerals and with elcplmnts, but misern.blo in IJemonomy. * * «· L<>t one character ~<enc for all. .For colour they resemble chimnry· sweepers; unlike them in thi~, they nrc of no p1·•lfcssion, l'Xtt•pt rapine anJ villany ma.kc one; for here, .Demouis omtti!t ]Jlcna. ·~ ·II- * :But in J,oango and tho Anziqui tho peopl•• :no littlr other than Ui.l·clf! incnrnn.tf'; not satisfied with na ture'~; tt·cnsures, a~ gold, prccww:1 stonca, Lle~h in variety, ;tnd tho like; tlw t.lelltruvtion of men all(( women nei~hbonring t!Jcm, whose drad Clli'C'tlSf'teS th •'y dcvouL· with n vulture reli1<h and appotito; whom if they wisf'l, they "ene thci1· friends ~uch scnn·y saucP, !Juluhcring them, anU tbinkiu~ the.v extu!-10 a.\1 in a. compliment that thry knuw no bcUQ!' way lo exprcsi'l love than in m:tking two bodieM in one, by an insoparablo union; ye:1, soma, as some report, prof1Cring them~:~clrcs tu tho ."lhambiPS, acennlingly nrc di~jointed, and sot to Bale upon tho ~<tall~. ·11- ·11- * The natives of Africa bein~ propagated fl·um ('ham, both in their ,.i~agcs :wd natures, seem to inhm·i t his m:dedidion. * * * 'J'hey ttro ' 'cry brutes. A dog wa!'l of tha.tmluo here that twenty ,;;ah·:1ges (llhn·cs) have been exchang:prJ fo1· one of them; but or !alP y(•ars the exchange hc1·e made for negroes, tO tmnspot·t in the Uari!Jn. l::!lcs and continent of America, is become n. comdderable trade." . It will be rcmcmlJ<>red how .c;rertt htn·e he('n the exertion.'! of tho British Govcrnmcn~ to aboli.<~h totally the ~hWP·trndo in Afl'i..:n. A p;rcat number ofsla\'0 "hips were c:tpturc~l, ami thn nrgroes found ou board sent to Sierm J .conc. Strong hop<'S wc1·e cntert:tined that • "poor, Sl!U'eriug Ajh'ca" was about to IJe cil'ilizPt l. 'Vc quote from the JliLemian Auxiliary .1\lissionary Report, Chris· tian Observer, 1820, p:t,!!:C'S 8~X ami SHU: "Tho ~>lave-trad e, which, like the (l:tblcd) up:l:;t, blasts all thn.t is :~~~~~~~1~13 ~ 0~11 g~~l( ~ j c ~~~ i V::~Sh ~~~C;ln 1~1 ~l~J~ II~~;~ r~~ ~~~ 11 ~l ~ tt ~~~~~~r~ ;~ ~~ c;l~ one spot. n.nd that on a Christian Aoil, imn1 iduals from nlmost every nation <Jf t!1c western coast of Afric:~. Jt htl!! Uecn mn.tle tho means of introduein~ to eiyj]ization nud rcli~ion lll:1llY hundreds from the intcriu1· of that vast continent, who had nevrr sec i1 the fitce of n. white mJnt, nor heard the name of J -c:ws. And it will be made the mrans, under God, of sen<.l in g; to the n:1tions beyond the NiJ;('r and the h<lil't, native misllionnrics who will preach the lted._..cmer_in tho utmost part:, of the country, and enabltJ tl10ir countrymen to h!'ar in their own tongue tho wonderful wo1·ks of God. European avarice and native urofiigacy leave no part of .Afrir1~ unexplored f(lr ,·ictim~; o.nd these |