Missionary Life in Western Africa. 
CHAPTER I. 
THE COUNXKT AND PEOPLE. 
On the west coast of Africa, and immediately 
south and south-east of the colony of Sierra 
Leone, are the country and people of which 1 
shall write, with the distinct understanding that 
what I shall say of the people will relate to those 
tribes visited by me in my sojournings in that 
country, namely, the Mendi, Sherbro, and Timiny 
tribes. 
In Africa, as in other heathen countries simi- 
larly governed, tribes living adjacent to each other 
are materially unlike in their customs and habits, 
as also in respect to moral character, some having 
sunk much lower in vice than others; and this 
accounts, in part, for the seemingly conflicting 
statements of missionaries who have visited that 
country. 
