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74: WESTERN AFRICA. 
be fed, and supplied with rum if it can be 
bad ; and they go about especially in the 
night, moaning, crying, and making a most 
hideous noise. They call over the virtues 
of the deceased, often giving him more than 
he ever had, and then they cry out, " Oh, 
me sorry too much for my friend, me go 
hang me, me go drown me, me go kill me. 
Oh, me wish meself die instead of me good 
friend." 
Whilst I was at Good Hope station, a 
man was employed to catch fish for the 
Mission, and one night while fishing, as is 
common there, one of those rambling, 
hypocritical, drunken, mourning parties 
came to where he was. He drank rum with 
them until he was intoxicated, and in that 
condition at midnight he came to the house, 
waked us all up, and was intent on having 
a fuss. In Africa, as in America, " when 
rum is in sense is out." 
They " cry," or mourn, for all who die, 
except slaves, and persons killed in war, or 
for crime. 
Those killed for crime are also denied a 
burial, being thrown out in the woods to be 
