350 THE FOREST AND THE FIELD. 



only the Sierra Leone and Brazilian emigrants, 

 with the idle loafers and refuse of the population, 

 even profess Christianity ; no man of any standing 

 or pretension in the land being ever converted. 

 The following anecdote will convey a very fair idea 

 of a negro Christian convert. 



" An old negro had been observed by one of the 

 Church Mission to be very constant in his atten- 

 dance at church for several Sundays consecutively, 

 so it was resolved to make him a communicant, and 

 the nature of the sacrament having been explained 

 to him, he took his place with some others round 

 the altar. The ceremony was about to proceed, and 

 the minister was pouring some wine into the cup, 

 when the convert, who had adopted ' white man's 

 fetish,' suddenly exclaimed, ' Fill um up, Daddie ! 

 fill um up, for true you sabby me lub de Sa- 

 viour, der nebber lib no more in de bottle, and 

 Quashie de bush-nigger go for catch um ebbery 



d d lillee drop. Heigh, Daddie, what for dis 



palaver ] ' " 



Lagos is the largest native town on the West 

 Coast, as it contains a mixed population of nearly 



