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Chapter VIII

Some Results of Christianity

Now I will try to show, with the help of a few pictures, the difference Christianity has made to the people. Books written by others have told of what the European Administration has done and is doing; and I desire to give the British Government Officials full credit for the vast number of improvements they have introduced, or helped the chiefs and missionaries to introduce, into the country. No doubt the imposition of the hut tax and the gun tax has made the people work to a limited extent; but the fact must not be overlooked that the native Governments have always imposed a hut or

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