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cross a field with a cow in it — replied was, must 
go." And go she did. Her boots became so 
wet she had to take them off and throw them away, 
then off came her stockings, and her dress got so 
torn by the trees in the bush that she lost that 
also. But hour after hour, with her head throb- 
bing with fever and her body trembling with weari- 
ness, she pressed forward until she reached the 
sick man and healed him. When angry men were 
going to fight, she — taking her life in her hands — 
went in between them and scolded them and 
pleaded with them until they agreed tO' settle their 
palaver (quarrel) peacefully. When our first mis- 
sionaries went into the heart of Africa they were 
four years before they got to their destination. For 
simply making marks in the sand with his 
umbrella whilst a pow-wow, or conference, was in 
progress, one of our missionaries was made a 
prisoner, dragged for some distance along the 
ground with his head downwards, and barely 
escaped with his life. 
On another occasion, a powerful king threatened 
to make slaves of both the Rev. Henry Buckenham 
and Mr. Baldwin, and take Mrs. Buckenham for 
one of his own wives ! The Rev. W. Chapman 
tells us that one day quite suddenly there appeared 
on the grounds of his mission a large body of armed 
men. When they got within a certain distance of 
the house, they sat down and waited. He did not 
know their language, and they were ignorant of 
his. All he could do was to pray to the God of 
Heaven to protect him, and sure enough God heard 
and answered his prayer. The Rev. W. Christie 
when trekking'* in Nigeria had some hair- 
