Journey's End #1# A Drunkard's Home "On the west coast of Africa is the country of Nigeria.

" "When I get to be a big man, I'm going to be a missionary," said Robert, "and preach to the black people of Calabar and Nigeria.

In the southern part of Nigeria was a strong, wild tribe called the Aros.

It is something very different, I know, from the nightmare of an international police of cosmopolitan scoundrels in nondescript uniforms, hastening to loot and ravish his dear Uganda and his beloved Nigeria, which distresses the crumpled pillow of Sir Harry Johnston.

For during the last half-century we have, in fact, waged wars to annex Egypt, the Soudan, the South African Republics, and Burmah, to say nothing of the succession of minor wars which have given us Zululand, Rhodesia, Nigeria, and Uganda.

His restless and adventurous soul ever leading him onward to the frontiers of settlement and the outskirts of civilised life, he fell beneath a shower of poisoned arrows at Lokojo in Nigeria, on the west coast of Africa, on the 27th of November, 1900.

Moreover, as between the united States of the world and the United States of America there is this further complication of the world position: that almost all the great States of Europe are in possession, firstly, of highly developed territories of alien language and race, such as Egypt; and, secondly, of barbaric and less-developed territories, such as Nigeria or Madagascar.

Islam is an open-air religion, noble and simple in its broad conceptions; it is none the less vital from Nigeria to China because it has sickened in the closeness of Constantinople.

A day may come when Tripoli, Nigeria, the French and the Belgian Congo will be all under one supreme control.

Retold from the Hanssa of Northern Nigeria, West Africa, with illus. by the author.

British enterprise in Nigeria.

Lee J. Butler (A); 31Jul70; R489470. BUTTERWICK, MARY COOK. British enterprise in Nigeria.

British enterprise In Nigeria.

WERNER, JANE COOK. British enterprise in Nigeria.

Retold from the Hanssa of Northern Nigeria, West Africa, with illus. by the author.

British enterprise in Nigeria.

Lee J. Butler (A); 31Jul70; R489470. BUTTERWICK, MARY COOK. British enterprise in Nigeria.

British enterprise In Nigeria.

WERNER, JANE COOK. British enterprise in Nigeria.

" For example, do you remember that handsome younger brother of my sculptor friendthe English boy who was in the heavy artillery, and had been in China and North Nigeria with Sir Frederick Ludgard as an aide-de-camp, and finally as assistant governor general?

Luckily I had seen him in June, when he was here on a visit, having just returned from North Nigeria, after five years in the civil service, to take up his grade in the army, little dreaming there was to be a war at once.

There was a pious young judge in Nigeria once, who kept a condemned prisoner waiting very many minutes while he hunted through the Hausa dictionary, word by word, for, 'MayGodhavemercyonyoursoul.'

When they travelled they were carried on the backs of men; but the king journeyed in a litter supported on shafts.[10] Among the Ibo people about Awka, in Southern Nigeria, the priest of the Earth has to observe many taboos; for example, he may not see a corpse, and if he meets one on the road he must hide his eyes with his wristlet.

Northcote W. Thomas, Anthropological Report on the Ibo-speaking Peoples of Nigeria (London, 1913), i. 57 sq.

C. Gouldsbury and H. Sheane, The Great Plateau of Northern Nigeria (London, 1911), pp.