In Afric’s Forest and Jungle 
been cut off from congenial female society for 
two years, greatly enjoyed this pleasant change in 
our social privileges. The ladies would not only 
exchange, calls but even make visits of days. 
One of them was the wife of a missionary 
physician and a daughter of Isaac Taylor, one of 
England’s most famous authors. Through her 
introduction, we afterward had the rare privilege 
of passing a week at the home of her distin¬ 
guished father near London. 
Just before we left Abeokuta, the very sudden 
death of one of the other ladies, a very attractive 
and cultured woman, cast a deep gloom over our 
little world. 
The mission compound included an acre or 
more of ground and this space was divided into 
a front and back yard. Many native houses 
were in each. These were occupied by the 
children, their teachers, the necessary servants 
and inmates and many refugees from Ejahyay, 
including the converts. Only the children were 
dependent on us for support. Excepting that 
they attended chapel services several times 
a week and family worship every night, the 
others lived as they would in a native com¬ 
pound. According to native law, the man in 
charge of the mission station was the bale and 
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