At different points in our course we came upon votive offerings to the Barimo.

These usually consisted of food; and every deserted village still contained the idols and little sheds with pots of medicine in them.

One afternoon we passed a small frame house with the head of an ox in it as an object of worship.

The dreary uniformity of gloomy forests and open flats must have a depressing influence on the minds of the people.

Some villages appear more superstitious than others, if we may judge from the greater number of idols they contain.
Only on one occasion did we witness a specimen of quarreling.