NATIVE GODS.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13495, 15 June 1914, Page 2

NATIVE GODS.

A land where strange native gods arestill worshipped was described by Mr R. Amaury Talbot at the Royal Geographical Society meeting recently in a paper on. the Eket district of Southern Rhodesia "the- Land of tho Ibibios." In the Kwa Ibo estuary, where the perfect sand is strewn with gleaming shells, come at low tide Ekct and Ibeno maids, who, casting off their robes pray to the sea goddess, I'm an Ibeno, to send them husbands. 31 en, too, come to plead, with arms outstretched, her help in unexpected difficulty or dangci