done, and the pile of logs in the courtyard had been brought by the old servants of the king as an offering to the spirit.
It must not be supposed that this is altogether the work of the heathen. The house was built with the sanction of the Prime Minister, who is a most earnest Christian, and the decorations of the interior were carried out under the supervision of Mbogo, the chief Mohammedan prince, only in the year 1902. It is an instance of how very hard superstition dies, and how very much popular feeling is against any change in the old habits of the people—though probably their superstition does not mean very much more to some people than the nailing of a horseshoe on the door of a barn.
One offering of especial value in the eyes of the spirit used to be human blood, and Mtesa offered 3,000 human beings in one day as a sacrifice to the spirit of Suna, his father. It is impossible to walk anywhere
