Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition .. . name it may be called; and the sorcerer is a personto be feared, the diviner to be honored. One particular form of this belief in magic is Fetichism, or 284 CHRISTIAN MISSIONS IN AFRICA. 285 the belief in charms. A European explorer of recent yearsrelates that on one occasion, when he had become unconsciousfrom the effects of fever, he found, upon recovering his senses,that he was almost literally covered with the charms which hisfaithful servitors had beli
Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition .. . name it may be called; and the sorcerer is a personto be feared, the diviner to be honored. One particular form of this belief in magic is Fetichism, or 284 CHRISTIAN MISSIONS IN AFRICA. 285 the belief in charms. A European explorer of recent yearsrelates that on one occasion, when he had become unconsciousfrom the effects of fever, he found, upon recovering his senses,that he was almost literally covered with the charms which hisfaithful servitors had believed would restore him to it was not even an opportunity for a faith cure; for hecast aside horns, elephants teeth and similararticles, and took a dose of quinine. The present writer isnot prepared to say what are the peculiar virtues of the vari-ous fetiches, or whether the Africans are so ridiculous as tohang a horse-shoe over the stable-door for luck, and carry ahorse-chestnut in the pocket (those of them who wear clothes)to ward off rheumatism. From their universal belief in spirits, and that prevailing. Natives Worshiping a Clay Idol. impression that spirits cannot be beneficent, arises what hasbeen styled devil-worship. Much of that to which this nameis applied is properly so called, since it is an effort to propiti-ate bad spirits; it may be that ignorance of their language andcustoms has caused some genuine worship of a Good Being tobe so designated; since the stranger would suppose the god^soworshipped to be, necessarily, a false one. We have already had occasion to speak of the evangelizationof Abyssinia; in connection with that, we have alluded to theeJtforts of the Portuguese missionaries. These followed closeupon the earliest explorers—indeed, in many cases the explor- 286 CHRISTIAN 3I1SSIONS IN AFRICA. ers were missionary monks, who were willing to brave everydanger and hardship for the extension of their faith. As inlater days, they wer
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