. The call of the dark continent : a study in missionary progress, opportunity and urgency. ^ used. Theyoften do the field work, carry the heavyburdens, and do what little cooking andhousekeeping there is to be done. In thevillages of West Africa, the housewife maybe heard grinding corn, sweeping, or pre-paring farm produce for market long beforedaylight. She may constantly be seencarrying on her head bundles weighinganything up to sixty pounds, and a babyfastened to her back in addition. Sheseems to do more work than her there is often a clear division of labour. By Permission of
. The call of the dark continent : a study in missionary progress, opportunity and urgency. ^ used. Theyoften do the field work, carry the heavyburdens, and do what little cooking andhousekeeping there is to be done. In thevillages of West Africa, the housewife maybe heard grinding corn, sweeping, or pre-paring farm produce for market long beforedaylight. She may constantly be seencarrying on her head bundles weighinganything up to sixty pounds, and a babyfastened to her back in addition. Sheseems to do more work than her there is often a clear division of labour. By Permission of Rev. J. Gregory Mantle. A CONGO WOMAN EEIUENING FBOM IHE FIELDS,p. 76. The People of the Dark Continent 77 between men and women; the former doingthe heaviest work, such as felHng timber,making canoes, and building huts. Thewomans position is not enviable, but shehas become accustomed to it, and, as arule, is resigned to her lot. Of course,temperaments vary as much as in otherlands ; some women patiently endure, butothers are wilful and passionate, and insome places the men have to resort tosome device—all more or less cruel—tokeep their women-folk in order. It isnot unusual for the hard-hearted husbandto seek the terrible help of the witch-doctoror fetich priest to rid himself of anobjectionable wife. But it must not be forgotten that, evenamong the tribes of the Dark Continent,family affection is often a real thing,though we can scarcely expect the samemanifestations of it as obtain amono:stChristian races—the more so because thenative is constrained and reser
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