CONGO LIFE AND FOLKLORE

PART I: LIFE ON THE CONGO
AS DESCRIBED BY A BRASS ROD.

PART II: THIRTY-THREE NATIVE STORIES
AS TOLD ROUND THE EVENING FIRES

REV. JOHN H. WEEKS

THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY
1911

First Edition.
An odd discription of native life and a collection of traditional folk tales.
The Rev. John H Weeks, Baptisit minister and author, arrived in the Lower Congo region in 1881. After a period of missionary work in the Lower Congo, where he founded the BMS mission post of Underhill in 1888, Weeks' society instructed him to move his activities to the "Upper Congo". In 1890, Walter H. Stapleton (also BMS) and John Weeks founded a Baptist mission post in Monsembe, where he stayed with his family until 1905. 

21 x 14 cm. xxii + 468 pp + b/w photo plates + publisher's adverts.

Very good condition. Some foxing mainly to page edges and preliminary pages. Fore-edge of the frontispiece worn, otherwise clean and tidy, binding sound.