Worshipping the Dead Prince 
died. In his last hours he possibly wished to 
wreak his vengeance on me for my supposed 
complicity in the conspiracy against him. But it 
may have been otherwise. He may have wished 
to tell me that he believed the gospel and had 
repented of his sins. 
An event almost as strange as this would have 
been, did actually occur a short time before 1 left 
Ejahyay. A man named Ardayloo, an officer in 
the Egbar army, was taken very sick and sent for 
me. He informed me that he had been a neigh¬ 
bor of the missionary of the American Baptist 
Mission in Abeokuta, and that he was a frequent 
visitor at his house. He had learned to know, 
he said, that the white man was kind, and he had 
sent to me for medical assistance. Seeing that 
he was very ill, I persuaded his men to bring him 
to the mission compound, and I had him put in a 
room of the native department. 
After a few days, it was evident that he would 
die. When he realized this, he sent for some of 
his men and confessed to them in my presence 
that he was a believer in “ Yasu Christee” and 
that he had not personally sacrificed to his peo¬ 
ple’s gods for several years. He requested them 
to give his body to me to be buried according to 
Christian rites and to surrender his personal 
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