extension of British rule in Northern Nigeriathe influence of Mohammedanism is extended.

Not that the Government wishes it. Again and again has the High Commissioner printed, written and said, ‘“‘I hold out every encouragement to establish Missions in Pagan centres. I shall be pleased to assist Christian Missions in every way possible in their good work amongst Pagans.”’

But Christian Missionaries are absent, and the tribes are calling in vain. .

A Land without a Graveyard.

They are poor dark tribes. Look at this picture, a Golgotha at Quankiem. There are no graveyards in that land. When people get old, the sons invite their frends, vegetables are provided, and as for meat—the old folks are cooked and eaten. There is a feast, a cannibal feast, and that is the end of the parent.

The skulls are carefully cleansed and stored in a special place like the halfwalled enclosure of this picture. I took the photograph myself. Three sacred trees were standing with a rough wall around them. I picked up one of the skulls from the inside, and placed it on the wall. You see it there. When the king of Gazum came to call on me to welcome us to the country and ask for teachers, I was informed that he had eaten his own father. He did not know it was wrong. His argument seemed to be that meat was scarce in the mountains—why should they leave good food for the worms?

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