HOME LIFE OF THE AFRICAN 
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tion—if she escapes a witchcraft charge of having caused his death. 
In which case her own life may be forfeit. 
Where children have access to mission schools, the boys are 
willingly sent by their parents, solely that the knowledge of the 
white man's language may make them more available for white 
man's service in trade, the ambition of every native as the stepping- 
AFRICAN HOUSES WITH THATCHED ROOFS. 
Stone to wealth. Girls are less willingly sent to school; they are so 
much needed by mother or husband in the many tasks of women, 
cooking food and planting vegetables, constant clearing them of 
the amazingly quick-growing weeds, and guarding them from the 
ravages of elephants, wild oxen, monkeys, wild pigs and hippo¬ 
potami. 
