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In Africa's forest and jungle : six years among the Yorubas /
In Africa's Forest and Jungle is the memoir of Richard Henry Stone, a Civil War era Southern Baptist missionary, who served in what is now Nigeria during the late 1850s and again during the first years of the American Civil War. Stone published this work in 1899, when it became clear that age w...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa, Ala. :
University of Alabama Press,
©2010.
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| Colección: | Religion and American Culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.