In Africa's forest and jungle : six years among the Yorubas / by R.H. Stone ; edited by Betty Finklea Florey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stone, R. H. (Richard Henry), 1837-

Contributor:

Florey, Betty Finklea.

Series:

Religion & American Culture

Religion and American culture.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Missionaries--United States--Biography.

Missionaries.

Missionaries--Nigeria--Biography.

Baptists--Missions--Nigeria.

Baptists.

Yoruba (African people)--Nigeria--Religion.

Yoruba (African people).

Stone, R. H. (Richard Henry), 1837-.

Stone, R. H.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : University of Alabama Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Africa's Forest and Jungle is the memoir of Richard Henry Stone, a Civil War era Southern Baptist missionary, who served in what is now Nigeria during the late 1850's and again during the first years of the American Civil War. Stone published this work in 1899, when it became clear that age would prevent him from returning to Africa. Stone served in Africa with his wife and successfully learned the Yoruba language. He was an intelligent, self-reflective, and reliable observer, making his works important sources of information on Yoruba society before the intervention of

Contents:

Introduction

Along the coast

Up the Ogun

In native homes

The story of Crowther

In a native caravan

An African despot

Our first dwelling

Some beasts and insects

Life and language

Superstitions

Polygamy

Some African maladies

Hunting

Mental solitude

Waylaid and captured

Flight from Ebaddan

Home again

Opening battles around Ejahyay

Worshipping the dead prince

Leaving the doomed city

Partial civilization

Love letters

A narrow escape

The human sacrifice

The stolen child

Improvements

Cast among robbers

The colony of Lagos.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8446-4

OCLC:

609852650