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Updated: June 13, 2025
I may remark on my own account that the Bubi villages do not often lie right on the path, but, like those you have to deal with up the Calabar, some little way off it.
And if you are going to do it, as they say in the advertising pages, "Do it now!" At Calabar there is a royal prisoner, the King of Benin.
Happily the Secession Church adopted the Calabar scheme, and after securing funds and a ship one of the first subscriptions, it is interesting to note, was L1000 from Dr. Ferguson Mr. Waddell, with several assistants sailed in 1846, and after many difficulties, which he conquered with indomitable spirit and patience, founded the Mission.
It was from her, however, that Mary got her soft voice and loving heart. Mary was the second of seven children. Of her infancy and girlhood little is known. Her own earliest recollections were associated with the name of Calabar. Mrs. Slessor was a member of Belmont Street United Presbyterian Church, and was deeply interested in the adventure going forward in that foreign field.
The Dukduk of the Bismarck Archipelago, the Egbo of Old Calabar, and the Ogboni of Yoruba, to take prominent examples, are police associations that have managed to get complete control of their respective communities and have naturally become instruments of oppression and fraud.
One is large-boned and heavy-limbed, hoarse-voiced, and masculine, like the "Ibos" of Bonny and New Calabar, who equal the men in weight and stature, strength and endurance, suggesting a mixture of the male and female temperaments. Some of the Gaboon giantesses have, unlike their northern sisters, regular and handsome features.
The Calabar Committee were favourable to any scheme of industrial training, and the local Government also expressed their willingness to assist. After the Rev. Dr. Laws, of Livingstonia, and the Rev.
At 4 the east point of Old Calabar river W.N.W. 7 miles. Anchored at midnight. Monday, 21. Unsettled weather and wind variable. At daylight got under weigh. At noon light breezes and hazy.
We left the Bonny with the intention of visiting our friends in the Old Calabar, in the hope of meeting the Frenchman, who had shot the mate of the Kent. Tuesday, 12. At five this morning, we came to an anchor.
The story of Calabar is one of the most thrilling in the history of missions, yet through it also there runs an undercurrent of tragedy the tragedy of unseized opportunities and unfulfilled hopes.
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