Ikpe

The lads lived at a town called Ikpe, an old slave centre, that had been in league with Aro, and the focus of the trade of a wide and populous area.

Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary W. P. Livingstone

The older girls take it in turn to sling her on their skinny hips and Ikpe-Itauma has named her Amelia, aftewr his grandmother.

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The older girls take it in turn to sling her on their skinny hips and Ikpe-Itauma has named her Amelia, aftewr his grandmother.

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Then they raised her in her camp-bed and marched with her the five miles to Ikpe.

Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary W. P. Livingstone

Some native workmen passing his station later mentioned the incident, and within a few minutes the officer had a mounted messenger speeding along the tract to Ikpe, with an urgent order to the people to get her conveyed in the Cape cart to the nearest point on the road, where he would have a motor car waiting.

Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary W. P. Livingstone

Ikpe, she was not to cycle, she was to lie down as much as possible.

Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary W. P. Livingstone

In Ikpe itself the currents of heathenism ran deep and strong, and she found progress as difficult as in Okoyong.

Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary W. P. Livingstone

On one of her early journeys up to Ikpe she met with a slight accident,

Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary W. P. Livingstone

During the next two years she travelled between the two points, sometimes using the canoe, but more often now the Government motor car, which ran round by Ikot Ekpene and dropped her at the terminus, five miles from Ikpe.

Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary W. P. Livingstone

The hurt was followed by erysipelas, and she was blind for a fortnight and suffered acute pain and heavy fever; but very shame at being ill after so fine a holiday made her get up although the eye was swollen and "sulky," and she was soon in the midst of her work at Ikpe as if nothing had happened.

Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary W. P. Livingstone