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tion — if she escapes a witchcraft charge of having caused his death. 

 In which case her own life may be forfeit. 



Where children have access to mission schools, the boys are 

 willingly sent by their parents, solely that the knowledge of the 

 white man's language may make them more available for white 

 man's service in trade, the ambition of every native as the stepping- 



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AFRICAN HOUSES WITH THATCHED ROOFS. 



stone to wealth. Girls are less willingly sent to school; they are so 

 much needed by mother or husband in the many tasks of women, 

 cooking food and planting vegetables, constant clearing them of 

 the amazingly quick-growing weeds, and guarding them from the 

 ravages of elephants, wild oxen, monkeys, wild pigs and hippo- 

 potami. 



