IN WESTERN AFRICA. 
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CHAPTER X. 
WAR. 
Mucli of the time of the men is still taken up in 
the prosecution of wars. They often engage in wars 
as neighbors in this country gather in their 
harvests ; namely, one tribe assists another. The 
headman of the town will furnish so many men 
for another head-man with whom he is friendly, 
to enable the latter to do the work of destruction 
upon an enemy. 
These persons must be fed, during the time of 
their service, from the stores of the tribe or head- 
men whom they serve. While at Shengay during 
the first three months of the year 1875, a war 
party came close there several times, so that the 
people of the town at different times brought their 
goods, and came themselves to the mission-house 
for protection. 
There was also war on the Big Boom and 
Bargru rivers during my stay in Africa. White 
people should take to themselves much blame for 
this state of things, as I shall pres^itly show. 
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