Since the King is also High Priest and the great repository of tradition, he could give away the inmost mysteries and did: How to bring rain (a miracle that Mr. Roscoe achieved in a forest Holy of Holies and received native thanks!!): how to promote all sorts of prosperity—especially plenty of salt; and how to exorcise evils.
By his knowledge of local language and earlier visits Mr. Roscoe, who was all alone, jpenetrated many present beliefs and customs that have balked our rulers and our missionaries. For example, in one tribe girls are betrothed at birth and married at 12 or 14. If they are unfaithful before marriage they are killed.
In the next tribe girls may do as they will until after marriage. Many most elaborate laws of marriage, of morality, of divorce, and of land tenure have been revealed in the course of the journey.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.