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entirely, and at last seeing a very steep hill, I went 
sharply to the top, and left him baffled at the bottom, 
looking surprised, grieved and injured. It was not 
meanness on my part, for I ^d just given a poor 
beggar sixpence, but I wanted to teach the rascal a 
lesson/^ 
“ We are now eight days late ; and are continually 
calling at little villages on the shore to give out cargo. 
Sometimes this operation takes a day or more. A 
great deal of this cargo is ‘ Superior Gin,' cases of 
brandy, casks of rum, and other civilising, Christian- 
ising influences. Drunkenness and the most flagrant 
immorality are common on the part of Europeans on 
the coast. Many of them confess and try to justify 
the most awful things. It is very sad, and a great 
drawback to missionary efforts. We went ashore at 
Bonny, where is the Ju-ju house or devil house. 
Bonny is a filthy place, and the people live in the 
greatest dirt and squalor. We went to see King Oko 
Jumbo, but fortunately he was not at home ; for the 
filthy house he lives in greatly offended one's nostrils, 
and I was glad not to have to go in. We were 
followed about by a small crowd of admiring 
aborigines, and found our way to the Ju-ju house, and 
saw the piles and stacks of skulls, the remains of 
those who had been put to death by sacrifice. Some 
of the skulls were embedded in the clay floor. We 
scrambled through one hole in the temple wall, and 
thoroughly examined the inside. I pulled out a 
double tooth from one of the skulls, just as a memento 
of the place. When we got outside and on our way 
back, the Ju-ju man or priest came up to us, wanting 
to ‘palaver' or talk, as we had invaded his sacred 
courts. He courteously invited us to come to terms 
for our sacrilege and iconoclasm, and asked us to 
‘ dash ' him. Any gift or present is called a ‘ dash ' 
out here, and the word is equivalent to an English 
‘tip.' We accordingly dashed him half-a-dollar, with 
which ill-gotten gain he went off greatly pleased. 
