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WESTERN AFRICA 
or Devil's belly (place of meeting), must 
cook for the Devil. 53 
It is also a remarkable fact that circum- 
cision is also one of the rites of this order. 
My anti-secret, as also my anti-slavery 
principles, were stengthened, by an ac- 
quaintance with those institutions in Africa. 
The church, and the world would be better 
without them. 
