IN WESTERN AFRICA. 
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CHAPTER XXVI. 
CREATION OF MAN. 
What has been said in the preceding pages 
concerning gregrees will prepare the mind of the 
reader to form some idea of the views of the work 
of creation in general, and the creation of man in 
particular, entertained by the Africans. 
On this subject I need here only narrate a 
legend current among the Mendi tribe, illustra- 
tive of the order God observed in man’s creation, 
and the reason of the difference existing between 
different tribes of people. The story runs thus : 
God made white man early in the morning, and 
take plenty time to show him book palaver [how 
to read], and God palaver [a knowledge of the 
gospel], and how to make plenty fine things. 
Then he tell him to go. 
^^Xext he make Mohammedan man, and show 
him little book palaver, and how to make some 
fine things [most all that is manufactured in that 
