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- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- CHAPTER I 1829
- CHAPTER II 1830, 1831
- CHAPTER III 1832
- CHAPTER IV 1832, 1833
- CHAPTER V 1834, 1835
- CHAPTER VI 1836, 1837
- CHAPTER VII 1837, 1838
- CHAPTER VIII 1838-1840
- CHAPTER IX 1841-1844
- CHAPTER X 1841-1845
- CHAPTER XI 1845
- CHAPTER XII 1846
- CHAPTER XIII 1846
- CHAPTER XIV 1846
- CHAPTER XV 1846, 1847
- CHAPTER XVI 1847
- CHAPTER XVII 1847
- CHAPTER XVIII 1847
- CHAPTER XIX 1847, 1848
- CHAPTER XX 1848, 1849
- CHAPTER XXI 1850
- CHAPTER XXII 1850
- CHAPTER XXIII 1850
- CHAPTER XXIV 1851
- CHAPTER XXV 1851
- CHAPTER XXVI 1852
- CHAPTER XXVII 1852
- CHAPTER XXVIII 1853, 1854
- CHAPTER XXIX 1855
- CHAPTER XXX 1856
- CHAPTER XXXI 1857
- CHAPTER XXXII 1858
- CHAPTER XXXIII 1858
- APPENDIX
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CHAPTER XXIV - 1851
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2011
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- CHAPTER I 1829
- CHAPTER II 1830, 1831
- CHAPTER III 1832
- CHAPTER IV 1832, 1833
- CHAPTER V 1834, 1835
- CHAPTER VI 1836, 1837
- CHAPTER VII 1837, 1838
- CHAPTER VIII 1838-1840
- CHAPTER IX 1841-1844
- CHAPTER X 1841-1845
- CHAPTER XI 1845
- CHAPTER XII 1846
- CHAPTER XIII 1846
- CHAPTER XIV 1846
- CHAPTER XV 1846, 1847
- CHAPTER XVI 1847
- CHAPTER XVII 1847
- CHAPTER XVIII 1847
- CHAPTER XIX 1847, 1848
- CHAPTER XX 1848, 1849
- CHAPTER XXI 1850
- CHAPTER XXII 1850
- CHAPTER XXIII 1850
- CHAPTER XXIV 1851
- CHAPTER XXV 1851
- CHAPTER XXVI 1852
- CHAPTER XXVII 1852
- CHAPTER XXVIII 1853, 1854
- CHAPTER XXIX 1855
- CHAPTER XXX 1856
- CHAPTER XXXI 1857
- CHAPTER XXXII 1858
- CHAPTER XXXIII 1858
- APPENDIX
- Plate section
Summary
We commence this chapter as we commenced the year, by a pleasant visit to the farm of our little friend, Item Ared, or “Camaroons.” Miss Miller and Jessy were with me. It was not much more than an hour's walk to the place; and the road, though a mere foot track through the bush, led over somewhat elevated and gently undulating ground, where the air seemed purer than near the river. He had sent in two boys to guide us, and met us himself some way from his farm with a hearty welcome, though disappointed at not seeing “mammy” too, as all called Mrs. Waddell. His people, whom we passed at their work, came to salute us, and his wives also—only five or six in number—came without ceremony for the same purpose, especially welcoming the white woman and child.
He showed us over his farm. His yams, just dug, were strung up in rows on frames of upright posts and cross poles, strong and high, to dry in the open air during the smoke season, for in that way they keep better than when housed. The frame was sixty or seventy yards long and about four high, containing about fifteen thousand yams, each on an average three pounds weight. On another smaller frame were the “yam heads,” designed for being replanted.
At the foot of a gentle hill a beautiful clear stream flowed among tall trees, over a sandy bed, without a particle of mud.
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- Twenty-Nine Years in the West Indies and Central AfricaA Review of Missionary Work and Adventure, 1829–1858, pp. 462 - 479Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1863