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In Africa's forest and jungle : six years among the Yorubas /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stone, R. H. (Richard Henry), 1837-
Other Authors: Florey, Betty Finklea
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, [2010]
Series:Religion and American culture
Subjects:
Stone, R. H. > (Richard Henry), > 1837-
Yoruba (African people) > Nigeria > Religion.
Baptists > Missions > Nigeria.
Missionaries > Nigeria > Biography.
Missionaries > United States > Biography.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Along the coast
  • Up the Ogun
  • In native homes
  • The story of Crowther
  • In a native caravan
  • An African despot
  • Our first dwelling
  • Some beasts and insects
  • Life and language
  • Superstitions
  • Polygamy
  • Some African maladies
  • Hunting
  • Mental solitude
  • Waylaid and captured
  • Flight from Ebaddan
  • Home again
  • Opening battles around Ejahyay
  • Worshipping the dead prince
  • Leaving the doomed city
  • Partial civilization
  • Love letters
  • A narrow escape
  • The human sacrifice
  • The stolen child
  • Improvements
  • Cast among robbers
  • The colony of Lagos.