IN WESTERN AFRICA. 
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ing in Mamoo was in the barra in the center of 
the town. The next house to it on one side was 
occupied by the finest - looking cow and calf I 
have seen in this part of Africa. Asking if I 
could buy them, the head-man said, with em- 
phasis, No.’^ I next asked if I could buy some 
bananas or rice there. The reply was, Nothing 
for sell. Too much hungry live in this country.’’ 
We then asked why they did not raise plenty of 
rice, and cattle, and everything, as they had rich 
land, and good grass for cattle and horses, and 
ought to have plenty of food to eat and to sell. 
With a sad look the head-man, who is reported 
as being a very good /heathen ruler, said, Too 
much war live here. If we work and get any- 
thing, war come and spoil our town.” 
Rum and war — and the first makes most of the 
latter — are great evils in Africa ; and, be it said 
to our shame, white people will continue to send 
rum here. And in not a few instances the wdiite 
traders of this country instigate war, which is 
often carried on for no other purpose than plun- 
der. Workino; and i^ettino; food and stock and 
other valuable things about them is to invite war 
to their town. Rather than to have that, they 
grow so little that they often suffer with hunger 
themselves. The numerous vices introduced here 
by white men, added to the many already exist- 
