Leaving the Doomed City 
female convert. She was found sitting at the 
foot of a tree utterly exhausted and ready to 
perish. Thus all were saved. 
We resumed our journey with light and thank¬ 
ful hearts, and from Okee-Magee to Abeokuta it 
was like a picnic. We took up our abode in the 
house in which we had been the guests of the 
missionary when we first arrived at Abeokuta. 
Mr. Phillips gave us a kind reception and we 
made the same domestic arrangements that we 
had while in Ejahyay. 
After becoming settled in our new home, hav¬ 
ing no farther need of the services of my inter¬ 
preter in Abeokuta, I sent him back to take care 
of the house in Ejahyay. The Bashorun prom¬ 
ised that, in case the Egbars retreated, he would 
notify him in time to escape. On getting to 
Ejahyay, he found that some marauding soldiers 
had tried to drink the acids in the dispensatory 
under the impression that they were alcoholic 
liquors. Fragments of the broken bottles were 
lying about everywhere, and things were smashed 
up generally as if by some one enraged or in 
pain. The robbers must have been dreadfully 
punished, but I heard nothing more from it. So 
many people were dying from all sorts of causes 
and life was valued at so little, that it is proth 
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