This, until the arrival of Europeans, never entered into their minds even as a doubt.
Everything not to be accounted for by common causes, whether of good or evil, is ascribed to the Deity.

Men are inseparably connected with the spirits of the departed, and when one dies he is believed to have joined the hosts of his ancestors.

All the Africans we have met with are as firmly persuaded of their future existence as of their present life.

And we have found none in whom the belief in the Supreme Being was not rooted.

He is so invariably referred to as the Author of everything supernatural, that, unless one is ignorant of their language, he cannot fail to notice this prominent feature of their faith.