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Calabar and its mission (1890)

Goldie, Hugh · Edinburgh : Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier · leaf 269

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EXTENSION OF THE MISSION—IKOR OFIONG. 259 work here is yet rather of a desultory character. Not being able to speak the language, I am obliged to put my hand to whatever I can manage. I spend a portion of every day endeavouring to lead the people who come about me through the mysteries of A B C. My… … ikorofiong Mission-house. men and women, boys and girls, which has its disadvantages in rather a peculiar way ; for I have several times found that when the young began to beat the old, the old having both legal and executive power, forbade the young, on penalty of a severe thrashing, from coming…

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