In Africas Forest And Jungle Or Six Years Among The Yorubans PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ... xxviii the colony of lagos Leaving my wife in America to follow when her health would permit, I returned alone to Lagos; but here I learned that, on account of a difficulty with the governor of Lagos, the Bashorun of Abeokuta, instigated by Shookanoo, who cordially hated the whites and was a counterpart of Ogumulla, had broken up the mission stations and that all our people who could get away with Mr. Phillips, were then in Lagos. For two years, I waited for an opportunity to get back to Abeokuta, but was never permitted to see the place again, a serious illness compelling me to return, at the end of that time, to America. Before bidding adieu to the reader, I will say something of my life in this now beautiful town and of the present state of things in this part of Western Africa. When I returned from America, things were on a "boom" in Lagos, and comfortable dwellings could not be rented for any price and, after living for a while in the elegant dwelling of the absent negro postmaster, I was forced to take up my residence in the original mud hut of the American Baptist Mission. In this house I learned more of the fauna of this part of the coast in two years than I could now learn in many years if I were occupying the elegant brick residence which is now the home of the Baptist missionary. The house was a good illustration of the kind of houses occupied by pioneer missionaries in this part of Africa. The ceiling was like that of native houses--palm poles covered with mats and with earth. The floor was made of boards from split logs. The walls were of adobe and the windows were holes in the walls closed by shutters made of split boards. The house had become old and the ceiling was either gone in some of the rooms or had been replaced by...