The Numbness Of Moral Perception Exhibited, Is
Often Discouraging; But The Mode Of Communication, Either By
Interpreters, Or By The Imperfect Knowledge Of The Language, Which
Not Even Missionaries Of Talent Can Overcome Save By The Labour Of
Many Years, May, In Part, Account For The Phenomenon.
However, the
idea of the Father of all being displeased with His children, for
selling or killing each other, at once gains their ready assent:
It
harmonizes so exactly with their own ideas of right and wrong. But,
as in our own case at home, nothing less than the instruction and
example of many years will secure their moral elevation.
The dialect spoken here closely resembles that used at Senna and
Tette. We understood it at first only enough to know whether our
interpreter was saying what we bade him, or was indulging in his own
version. After stating pretty nearly what he was told, he had an
inveterate tendency to wind up with "The Book says you are to grow
cotton, and the English are to come and buy it," or with some joke of
his own, which might have been ludicrous, had it not been seriously
distressing.
In the first ascent of the Shire our attention was chiefly directed
to the river itself. The delight of threading out the meanderings of
upwards of 200 miles of a hitherto unexplored river must be felt to
be appreciated. All the lower part of the river was found to be at
least two fathoms in depth.
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