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Updated: June 18, 2025
And from out all their mouths, vaguely stammered in every language, came the dismal utterances of the catacombs. "Ainsi soit-il!" "Mea culpa!" "Asi sea!" "Aro raï!" "Amen!" It was as though the sombre voices of Babel were scattered through the shadows as Heaven uttered its awful refusal to hear them.
The Indians aro grave jokers, they seldom smile; and this old traditional skunk-joke, which has run the length of a continent, finding its way into many wise books, is their revenge on a superior race. My friend Mr. Ernest Gibson, of Buenos Ayres, in a communication to the Ibis, describes an encounter he actually witnessed between a carancho and a skunk.
On the other hand, the existence of a most intimate connection between the agriculture of the one country and that of the other is attested by their possessing in common all the oldest expressions relating to it; -ager-, agros ; -aro aratrum-, aroo arotron ; -ligo-alongside of lachaino ; -hortus-, chortos ; -hordeum-, krithei ; -milium-, melinei ; -rapa-, raphanis-; -malva-, malachei ; -vinum-, oinos . It is likewise attested by the agreement of Greek and Italian agriculture in the form of the plough, which appears of the same shape on the old Attic and the old Roman monuments; in the choice of the most ancient kinds of grain, millet, barley, spelt; in the custom of cutting the ears with the sickle and having them trodden out by cattle on the smooth-beaten threshing-floor; lastly, in the mode of preparing the grain -puls- poltos , -pinso- ptisso , -mola- mulei ; for baking was of more recent origin, and on that account dough or pap was always used in the Roman ritual instead of bread.
The priests despatched their emissaries far and wide; they settled in townships, swore blood brotherhood with the chiefs, and took part in local affairs. They planted farms, and traded and acquired enormous power. When disputes arose they got the matter sent for adjustment to the town in Aro within whose sphere of influence they lived, or to the Long Juju.
It is a contraction which conceals two other words." "Can you tell us what they are?" said the chevalier. "Certainly; aro comes from aroma, and ph is the initial of philosophorum:" "Did you get that out of Paracelsus?" said Farsetti, evidently annoyed. "No, sir; I saw it in Boerhaave."
First Itu, and then the Creek, then back from Aro, where I had set my heart, to a lonely, spooky, wilderness. There no one ever went, but now miles of roads are being built. The Board says I am to go back to Akpap in April. I love no other place on earth so well.
In a home like mine a woman can find infinite happiness and satisfaction. It is an exhilaration of constant joy I cannot fancy anything to surpass it on earth." Then came the military expedition to break up the slave system and the false gods of Aro.
So widespread was the net east by the Aros, and so powerful their influence, that if a chief living a full week's journey to the north were asked, "What road is that?" he would say, "The road to Aro." All roads in the country led to Aro. A few years before this a party of eight hundred natives had proceeded from the territories about the Niger to consult the Long Juju on various matters.
Wilkie goes so far as to say that "had she been settled in the Aro country it is doubtful whether an armed expedition would have been necessary, and it is at least possible that the suppression of the slave-trade would have been achieved by the peaceable means of the Gospel." Primitive peoples often bend more quickly before Christ than break before might of arms.
From our home here we should thus superintend the small school at Idot, and start in a small way work at Eki, and reside mostly at Itu as the base, working the Creek where the Enyon towns are on the way to the farther base at Amasu, reside there or itinerate from there among the Aro people in an easy way, and back again by Creek and Itu home.
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