Travels in West Africa
Travels in West Africa
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Yesterday they would talk to me with a sweet mouth, now they greetme only with curses and execrations. They have smashed my basin, they have torn my clothes, " and so on, and so on. There was nocomplaint against the people for doing these things, only a bittersense of injury against some superhuman power that had sent thiswithering curse of twins down on her. She knew not why; she sang "Ihave not done this, I have not done that"--and highly interestinginformation regarding the moral standpoint ...a good deal of it was. Ihave tried to find out the reason of this widely diffused customwhich is the cause of such a pitiful waste of life; for in additionto the mother and children being killed it often leads to otherpeople, totally unconcerned in the affair, being killed by therelatives of the sufferer on the suspicion of having caused thecalamity by witchcraft, and until one gets hold of the underlyingidea, and can destroy that, the custom will be hard to stamp out ina district like the great Niger Delta.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Yesterday they would talk to me with a sweet mouth, now they greetme only with curses and execrations. They have smashed my basin, they have torn my clothes, " and so on, and so on. There was nocomplaint against the people for doing these things, only a bittersense of injury against some superhuman power that had sent thiswithering curse of twins down on her. She knew not why; she sang "Ihave not done this, I have not done that"--and highly interestinginformation regarding the moral standpoint ...a good deal of it was. Ihave tried to find out the reason of this widely diffused customwhich is the cause of such a pitiful waste of life; for in additionto the mother and children being killed it often leads to otherpeople, totally unconcerned in the affair, being killed by therelatives of the sufferer on the suspicion of having caused thecalamity by witchcraft, and until one gets hold of the underlyingidea, and can destroy that, the custom will be hard to stamp out ina district like the great Niger Delta.
What to read after Travels in West Africa?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Kingsley Mary H. to read onlineMoreLess
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