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A Specimen Day 
horrors ; yet no savages show more brutality in 
torture, more frenzied delight in bloodshed, than 
they do. A few of their pleasant practices are-— 
The administration of Esere, or poison-bean ; 
“ Egbo floggings ” of the utmost severity, equal¬ 
ling the knout ; 
Substitution of an innocent pauper for a rich 
criminal; 
Infanticide of twins ; and 
Vivisepulture. 
And it must be remembered that this tribe has 
had the benefit of a resident mission for the last 
generation. I can hardly believe this abnormal 
cruelty to be the mere result of uncivilization; it 
appears to me the effect of an arrested develop¬ 
ment, which leaves to the man all the ferocity 
of the carnivor, the unreflecting cruelty of the 
child. 
The dietary of these “ wild men of the woods ” 
would astonish the starveling sons of civilization. 
When will the poor man realize the fact that his 
comfort and happiness will result not from work- 
houses and almshouses, hospitals and private 
charities, but from that organized and efficient 
emigration, so long advocated by the seer Car¬ 
lyle ? Only the crassest ignorance and the list¬ 
lessness born of misery and want prevent the 
able-bodied pauper, the frozen-out mechanic, or 
the weary and ill-clad, the over-worked and under- 
