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CONGO LIFE AND FOLKLORE

Photo]      A NATIVE VILLAGE.      [Rev. R. H. Kirkland

THE MAIN PATH ON WATHEN STATION.
(Note the “Welcome” Banner.)

CONGO LIFE
AND FOLKLORE

Part I
LIFE ON THE CONGO
AS DESCRIBED BY A BRASS ROD
Part II
THIRTY-THREE NATIVE STORIES
AS TOLD ROUND THE EVENING FIRES
BY THE
REV. JOHN H. WEEKS
(BAPTIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY)
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
LONDON
THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY
4 BOUVERIE STREET; & 65 ST. PAUL’S CHURCHYARD, E.C.
1911
TO
MY COLLEAGUES, LIVING AND DEAD
WHOSE ARDUOUS LABOURS AND FAITHFUL LIVES HAVE
REDOUNDED TO THE GLORY OF CHRIST, AND
TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF HIS KINGDOM IN CONGOLAND
AND TO
THOSE CO-WORKERS IN THE HOME-LAND
WHOSE GENEROSITY, PRAYERS AND KINDLY WORDS HAVE
SUPPORTED, STRENGTHENED AND ENCOURAGED
THEM ALL THESE YEARS, THIS BOOK
IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED
vii

PREFACE

A brass rod is the money of by far the largernumber of the people on the Lower andUpper Congo. In thickness it is not quite sostout as an ordinary slate pencil, and varies now inlength, according to the tribe using it, from fiveinches long on the

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