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By Sheer Pluck

CHAPTER XIV: A CHRISTIAN TOWN
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It war nigh forty year since I had gone away, but at last some ob de ole people remember me, dat I was de son ob de chief.

As I had plenty goods, and dey did not like de man dat was here, dey made me chief in my fader's place.

I told dem dat I no accept de place unless dey promise to behave bery well, to mind what I said to dem, and to listen to my words; but dat if they do dat I gibe dem plenty goods, I make dem comfortable and happy, and I teach dem de way ob de Lord.

Dey agree to all dis.
"I find de slave trade now all at an end, and dat de people not fight often now.

Still, de twenty muskets dat I bring make de people of oder villages respec' us very much.


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