XXVIII 
THE COLONY OF LAGOS 
Leaving my wife in America to follow when 
her health would permit, I returned alone to 
Lagos; but here I learned that, on account of 
a difficulty with the governor of Lagos, the 
Bashorun of Abeokuta, instigated by Shookanoo, 
who cordially hated the whites and was a 
counterpart of Ogumulla, had broken up the 
mission stations and that all our people who 
could get away with Mr. Phillips, were then in 
Lagos. 
For two years, I waited for an opportunity to 
get back to Abeokuta, but was never permitted 
to see the place again, a serious illness compell¬ 
ing me to return, at the end of that time, to 
America. Before bidding adieu to the reader, I 
will say something of my life in this now beau¬ 
tiful town and of the present state of things in 
this part of Western Africa. 
When I returned from America, things were 
on a “boom” in Lagos, and comfortable dwell¬ 
ings could not be rented for any price and, after 
living for a while in the elegant dwelling of the 
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