In Afric’s Forest and Jungle 
were brought from under the influence of pagan¬ 
ism and put under the influence of the gospel at 
a very receptive age. As we would not be able 
to sustain so many children in this famine- 
stricken town, it was decided that Mr. Phillips 
should take most of the children and go to 
Abeokuta, while I would remain in charge at 
Ejahyay, retaining my wife’s little waiting maid 
and some of the children whose parents were not 
willing for them to leave Ejahyay. Mr. Phillips 
succeeded in getting them all safe to Abeokuta, 
but some of them were laid up for some time 
from exhaustion, for the soldiers moved rapidly 
in these military caravans. Thus originated a 
native orphanage which afterward became an 
important centre of Christian influence among 
the people of Yoruba. 
As the famine increased, many little home¬ 
less, starving wanderers came into the mission 
compound at Ejahyay. Some of them appeared to 
be demented by sickness and hunger, and when 
we were not watching, returned to the streets to 
perish. Those whom we could get to remain, 
we nursed into health and then sent them to 
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Abeokuta in baskets on the heads of soldiers. In 
this way, 1 sent down about seventy more chil¬ 
dren to be placed at the orphanage. Of these, 
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