The fetish folk of West Africa

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Lolo—Unwashed—Washed—A flying bucket—A little friend—The blessed
      Melchisedec—A parting—_Ko-ko-ko-ko_—The centre of a fight—The
      poetry of soap—A threat of suicide—The eloquence of sounding
      brass—A “rotten road”—Savages as soldiers—Ngema’s
      father—Across our bow—A tornado.


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 A SCHOOL                                                            198

    Mendam, the _big brother_—Clothing—A day’s program—Cutting
      grass—A python—Rations—A collapse—The dormitory—The
      dispensary—The jigger-palaver—Not stupid—A head that got
      hit—Singing—Interruptions—A picnic—Games—War-dances—Stories—_A
      Tug-of-War_—_A Race_—_The Leopard and the Antelope_—An
      evangelistic force.


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 THE MENTAL DEGRADATION OF FETISHISM                                 219

    The horseshoe—The charm—The fetish—The relic—The fetish-doctor—A
      psychological consequence—The African idea of
      nature—Incredible beliefs—Confession of a chief’s son—Two
      babes—The idea of God—The mental atmosphere—Making the
      rainbow—A problem—First lessons—Why the river is crooked—An
      old woman’s illustration.


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 THE MORAL DEGRADATION OF FETISHISM                                  233

    A lost child—Worship of snakes—Demoralizing factors—A chief’s
      fetish—Ingredients—Human sacrifice—A royal death—Wives and
      witchcraft—Concluding a war—Destiny—Man’s nature—New
      conceptions—A revolt from cannibalism—Heaps of
      skulls—Deliverance.


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 FETISHISM AND THE CROSS                                             246

    A precocious boy—Killed his friend—Essentially moral—Cure for
      lying—The ordeal—A trial and death—The sense of
      guilt—Expiatory rites—The new ideal—The
      atonement—Self-sacrifice and self-assertion—Ndong Koni builds
      a church—Onjoga cuts grass—Makuba’s rheumatism—What is a
      missionary?—Onjoga’s wife—Children at play.


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 MISSIONS AND SOCIAL PROGRESS                                        264

    The _noble savage_—Story of a feud—Society and the
      individual—Progressive and
      unprogressive—Interdependence—Conquest of
      nature—Education—Authority of custom—Work—Trustworthiness—A
      civilizing experiment—A communion service—Equality of woman—A
      salutation—Attitude towards nature—A thirst for
      knowledge—Service—Legitimacy in government—The home—_Thy
      kingdom come_.


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 THE CRITICS                                                         286

    The missionary blamed for everything—Bewildering
      inconsistency—Professor Starr—Misfits—Criticism
      unjust—Unbelief—Antipathy towards the
      native—Cruelty—Vice—Lowering of ideals—Missions sociologically
      sound—The let alone policy too late—Miss Kingsley.