The Missionary Seer 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. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ...do. There was no finer child. Nakanende rolled and pushed the bed mats aside, then she drew from the cook-house fire a large mandioc root which had been roasting there. A goodly portion was sent to her husband, who was talking with the men in the "'onjango.' Each of the little girls had a piece, too, and the choice bits were reserved for Samba with some cold mush, which she forced down his throat. The seven months' old baby resented this process, . his stomach was full of that which Nature had provided for such as he, but his mother laughed at his struggles and the other women came to see and to offer encouragement in the unequal cones. "Give him plenty of mush and beans, 'Hsaid one old woman. "I bore five children and I fed them all. They died in childhood, two of them before their teeth were through. If I had fed them more mush and beans they might not have gone from me," and she shook her head gloomily. A "Samba is always well," began Nakanende proudly, then she checked herself, for the air was full of spirits who envied her the child. She had had a charm put on his wrist when he was but a ' On jan go. Sitting room of men, few days old. It was a little fiat blue bead, ugly, but it had done its work well. She intended to buy another charm with the cloth she would get for the meal sold today. But the morning work was done and why should women stand about while the fields waited? Soon a long line of them with baskets, hoes and babies followed by a motley line of little girls, were off for the day's digging. Four or five women were going with Nakanende. It was a morning for gay chatter. Kanende, at the tail of the procession, listened to their talk, of twins born in the next village, ...