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lizzards, centipedes, etc. Even elephants and boa- 
constrictors fear them. It is said that they will 
kill and eat up the largest animals. One alone can 
not do so much ; neither can two, nor half a 
dozen ; hut they club together, and in that way ac- 
complish what a few could not do. It would be 
well for us, in doing good, to follow their ex- 
ample. 
How would you like to be drawn in a baby-car- 
riage wherever you go? Well, that is about the 
way we travel in Africa. We do not have baby- 
carriages, but something almost like them; we 
have sedan-chairs,” and they are drawn by the 
natives. The sun shines so hot here that we can 
not walk as much as we can in a colder country. 
Only about two hundred feet from the mission- 
house, near the sea, stands a grand old cotton- 
tree. Just now it is covered with beautiful white 
cotton. The people here do not like the cotton 
that grows on trees. They think if they use it in 
pillows, and sleep on them, it will make them 
crazy. 
Not long ago I visited the school at Shengay, 
and saw a monkey in an oleander-tree. As soon 
as he saw me he scampered down and came 
right to me. When he saw that I had nothing for 
him he ran away, climbed up on the back of a 
bench where one of the children was standing, 
