Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IS. ARRIVAL AT ABBEOKCTA. COMMENCEMENT OF WORE THERE. MR. CROWTHER'S REUNION WITH HIS MOTHER AND SISTERS. "Commit thy way unto the Lord, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to paas."--Psahn xxx vii. 6. Seventeen months had now passed since onr missionaries landed at Badagry, in the full persuasion that in not more than as many days they should be on their road to Abbeokuta. But days, and weeks, and months, had come and gone, and still they could not move. They had from time to time received very friendly messages from the chiefs there, expressing their unchanged desire to see them, but still assuring them that it was not yet safe to venture; and "hope deferred" was beginning to sadden the hearts of our friends, when it pleased God to open a way for them through a very unlikely channel, and to make the slave-trade itself the means of introducing the Gospel to the interior. Domingo, the great slave-dealer at Porto Novo, found that the continued warfare between the Abbeokutans and the people of Adu injured his trade, by making the conveyance of slaves to the coast more difficult and insecure than formerly, and he Bet about to effect a reconciliation. By means of Borne of his agents at Badagry, he succeeded in accomplishing this; peace was once more restored between Abbeokuta, Adu, and Badagry, and the road was again open. The missionaries had taken advantage of the final embassy from Badagry to send with it one of their own people, charged with a message to the Abbeokutan chiefs, stating their unabated wish to settle among them, and their readiness to set out without delay. Domingo, well aware that the introduction of Christianity and civilisation would interfere with his traffic, would gladly have prevented this message from...
