In Afric’s Forest and Jungle 
to prophesy that English, Arabic, Suaheelee and 
Haussa will, in course of time, be the only lan¬ 
guages generally spoken in Africa, I hope, how¬ 
ever, it will be a long time before any other su¬ 
percedes the musical Yoruban tongue. 
The Haussas make excellent, dashing soldiers, 
and are the chief reliance of the English in their 
wars with the natives in this part of the conti¬ 
nent. They are the Sepoys of Africa. 
The favor shown the Haussas has drawn Mos¬ 
lems of other nationalities to Lagos and, out of a 
population of nearly one hundred thousand, they 
probably constitute one-half. The shrill cry of 
the muezzin and the loud prayers of the priests, 
which literally pierce the skies, never fail to break 
the stillness of the early morning. 
Pagan rulers sometimes get Moslem priests to 
pray for them. The prayers offered up by the 
priest of the Bashorun in the camp at Ejahyay, 
could be heard all over the city. This shows 
that religion among these people is often a strange 
mixture of paganism and Mohammedanism. Yet 
I had little success in my labors among Moham¬ 
medans because they regarded me as an idolater. 
For this reason my time, while in Lagos, was 
chiefly occupied in training the refugees from 
Abeokuta and in laboring among the heathen 
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