For Example, There Is This Beautiful Story Now
Extant Among The Cabindas.
God made at first all men black - He
always does in the African story - and then He went across
A great
river and called men to follow Him, and the wisest and the bravest
and the best plunged into the great river and crossed it; and the
water washed them white, so they are the ancestors of the white men.
But the others were afraid too much, and said, "No, we are
comfortable here; we have our dances, and our tom-toms, and plenty
to eat - we won't risk it, we'll stay here"; and they remained in the
old place, and from them come the black men. But to this day the
white men come to the bank, on the other side of the river, and call
to the black men, saying, "Come, it is better over here." I fear
there is little doubt that this story is a modified version of some
parable preached to the Cabindas at the time the Capuchins had such
influence among them, before they were driven out of the lower Congo
regions more than a hundred years ago, for political reasons by the
Portuguese.
In the bush - where the people have been little, or not at all, in
contact with European ideas - in some ways the investigation is
easier; yet another set of difficulties confronts you. The
difficulty that seems to occur most easily to people is the
difficulty of the language.
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