for half a mile around the tree where this sacrifice was offered without passing over human bones, and it is only four miles from Mengo. It is one of a great number of similar trees in the country.
There was a universal belief in the Lubare, or spirit ; but this Lubare was not one spirit, but many. The chief spirit was that of the lake, whose headquarters were probably the island of Bukasa; but there was also the Lubare of thunder, of rain, of war, of sickness, and, in fact, of almost everything. They appear to believe that all these Lubare owe their allegiance to the Divine Creator. Of course there was no idea of love in their minds; in fact, no word meaning love exists in their language. The word which we use for love in our missionary teaching originally meant ‘to be fond of,’ in the sense of animal love, and the same word is used for ‘to desire.’
The whole idea of the people connected with the Lubare was, as is common with
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