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GOD'S BLACK DIAMONDS. 
methods to find out who is the murderer. In the 
Okoyong country, if a husband dies his wives have 
to step out one by one, when the head of a fowl 
is cut off, and the judges find them innocent or 
guilty according to' the way the body of the fowl 
falls. When it falls the wrong way the accused 
wife is declared guilty and put to death straight- 
way. Another method, and one that is very popu- 
lar, is to take a little poisonous bean called 
esere," crush it, put it into water, and then make 
all the suspected people drink it. If they die of 
poison it is quite all right, for the natives argue 
that the bean could not have harmed them had they 
been innocent. At a place called Ebukhu the Rev. 
N. Boocock and I paid the first missionary visit 
the people had ever had. We were well received^ 
and, after we had told them about God and His 
love, they said our word was a good word, and 
they would like a teacher, as they were anxious to 
know morCc Thus their curiosity made an opening 
for preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 
