They believe that in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

Women singing as they pound their grain into meal,--"Oh, the march of Bwanamokolu to Katanga! Oh, the march to Katanga and back to Ujiji!--Oh, oh, oh!" Bwanamokolu means the great or old gentleman.

Batusi women are very keen traders, and very polite and pleasing in their address and pretty way of speaking.
I don't know how the great loving Father will bring all out right at last, but He knows and will do it.
The African's idea seems to be that they are within the power of a power superior to themselves--apart from and invisible: good; but frequently evil and dangerous.

This may have been the earliest religious feeling of dependence on a Divine power without any conscious feeling of its nature.

Idols may have come in to give a definite idea of superior power, and the primitive faith or impression obtained by Revelation seems to have mingled with their idolatry without any sense of incongruity.