Una vita per l'Africa : RevAdolphus Clemens buona, Ph.D., missionario americano equatoriale in Africa occidentale . zione nel distretto di Ebolowoe, sessanta-otto miglia a est da sud da Efulen. Thesite era su di una bassa collina, ad un'elevazione oftwenty quattrocento piedi sopra il livello del mare. Thetown corretto aveva solo circa otto hundredinhabitants, ma sei strade portavano in manydirections in altre città, da un twentyminutes distanti a piedi per un ora e onemight continuare su per un giorno intero, o daystogether, attraverso una successione di villaggi eun grande aggregato della popolazione. Per un principiante inAfrica la gente sembra e selvatici

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A life for Africa : RevAdolphus Clemens Good, Ph.D., American missionary in equatorial West Africa . tion in the district of Ebolowoe, sixty-eight miles east by south from Efulen. Thesite was on a low hill, at an elevation oftwenty-four hundred feet above the sea. Thetown proper had only about eight hundredinhabitants, but six roads led out in as manydirections to other towns, from a twentyminutes walk distant to an hour, and onemight continue on for a whole day, or daystogether, through a succession of villages anda large aggregate population. To a novice inAfrica the people would seem wild enough:powerfully built, almost naked, smearing thewhole body with red powder, their hair deco-rated with buttons, beads, shells, and feathers;they were always at war; they held human lifeat a discount; nearly every girl was sold for awife before five years old. Fifty or a hundredof them at a time, each armed with gun, knife, or spear, they surrounded the missionarygroup, prying curiously into all their few pos-sessions. This was heathenism. But the tigertooth around the neck, the charmed antelope. THE CROIVNING YEAR 265 horn over the shoulder, their medicine forguns, their grotesque ngee and organized rob-ber band, especially their speech, to those whounderstood it, were a revelation of deeperdarkness. The whole Bulu world lay underthe paralyzing power of the fetish. Our missionaries longed to give this landto Jesus Christ for his possession; and, asthey traveled back towards Efulen, theytalked of what the mail from America mightbring. How soon would the new men becoming! When could they begin to buildupon the new-bought property? How longbefore they might proclaim liberty to thecaptive there? At present not a Bulu from Efulen daredto carry up their loads. One year from thattime the people of Ebolowoe intrusted ^yqboys to the mission school at Efulen. Thename eventually given to the second station, Elat, intimates a compact of friendship. The mail came from America and brought—

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