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10 to 12 there is school. The recreation time between 
12 and I is usually spent in bathing and fishing. From 
2 to 4 there is school again, and after that, work again 
for about an hour and a half. Some help in the cocoa 
plantation ; the boys often go to the practical worker 
to help him, and they prepare bricks, carry building 
material where it is wanted, or finish digging or other 
work on the soil. Then the food for the following day 
is given out ; at 6 comes the evening service, and after 
that they get supper ready. There is a big shed under 
which the children cook their bananas in native fashion, 
and they divide into groups of five or six, each of which 
has a pot and a fire hole to itself. At 9 they go to bed, 
that is, they retire to their plank bedsteads under the 
mosquito netting. On Sunday afternoons they make 
canoe expeditions, the mistress going out with a crew of 
girls. In the dry season they play on the sandbanks. 
The work of the boys’ school sufiers, unfortunately, 
in this way, that when the evangelist goes out on his 
preaching rounds, or when a canoe expedition is needed 
for any purpose, a crew of boys has to be taken for it, 
and they may be absent for as much as a week. When 
shall we reach such a stage of efficiency that every 
mission station has its motor boat ? 
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Should a missionary have a thorough education ? 
Yes. The better a man’s mental life and his intel- 
lectual interests are developed, the better he will be 
able to hold out in Africa. Without this safeguard he 
is soon in danger of becoming a nigger, as it is called 
here. This shows itself in the way he loses every higher 
point of view ; then his capacity for intellectual work 
