The Prayer Book does not give ignorant persons any idea of an unseen Being addressed, it looks more like reading or speaking to the book: kneeling and praying with eyes shut is better than, our usual way of holding Divine service.
We had a long discussion about the slave-trade.

The Arabs have told the chief that our object in capturing slavers is to get them into our own possession, and make them of our own religion.

The evils which we have seen--the skulls, the ruined villages, the numbers who perish on the way to the coast and on the sea, the wholesale murders committed by the Waiyau to build up Arab villages elsewhere--these things Mukate often tried to turn off with a laugh, but our remarks are safely lodged in many hearts.

Next day, as we went along, our guide spontaneously delivered their substance to the different villages along our route.

Before we reached him, a headman, in convoying me a mile or two, whispered to me, "Speak to Mukate to give his forays up." It is but little we can do, but we lodge a protest in the heart against a vile system, and time may ripen it.