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Proyart, in his history of Loango, acknowledges that the negroes on the coast, who associate with Europeans, are inclined to licentiousness and fraud; but he says those of the interior are humane, obliging, and hospitable.
Some declared, as we find in Proyart, that the corpse had been mummified by the rude process of smoking; others that it had been exposed for some days to the open air, the relatives sitting round to keep off the flies till preliminarily bandaged.
The excellent Abbe Proyart begins his "History of Loango" with the wise and memorable words: "Touching the Africans, these people have vices, what people is exempt from vice?
The Abbe Proyart opines of his professional brother, "he is ignorant as the rest of the people, but a greater rogue," a pregnant saying. Yet here "the man of two worlds" is not l'homme de revolution, and he suffices for the small "spiritual wants" of his flock.
The superstructure strikes most travellers as having somewhat the look of a chalet, although Proyart compares it with a large basket turned upside down.
The Abbe Proyart, the author of the letter to the prisoner of the Temple, came to offer the Pope a copy of this same life of Madame Louise of France, which he had long since offered to the sister of Louis XVI. "I am living here," said Pius VII., "in the apartments of another saint." What singular vicissitudes!
Wesley had this great cause much at heart, and frequently recommended it to the support of those who attended his useful ministry. In the year 1776, the Abbé Proyart brought out, at Paris, his History of Loango, and other kingdoms in Africa, in which he did ample justice to the moral and intellectual character of the natives there.
Wesley had this great cause much at heart, and frequently recommended it to the support of those who attended his useful ministry. In the year 1776, the abbé Proyart brought out, at Paris, his History of Loango, and other kingdoms in Africa, in which he did ample justice to the moral and intellectual character of the natives there.
This style of dividing time, which is common throughout Pagan West Africa, is commonly styled a week: thus the Abbe Proyart tells us that the Loango week consists of four days, and that on the fourth the men "rest" by hunting and going to market. Tuckey also recognizes the "week of four days," opposed to the seven days' week of the Gold Coast.
There was little of interest during this period and, on the whole, everybody was pleased when the move was resumed to huts at Hamel. After a few days there the Battalion marched to billets at Proyart, where Lieut.-Col. J.W. Jeffreys, D.S.O., returned and took over command. Again, in three or four days it marched to Foucaucourt, where it was in Divisional Reserve.
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