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WEST COAST MISSIONS. 



Chap. XXIX. 



We certainly never met with any benevolent person who 

 lavished all his charity abroad, and refused to extend a 

 kind and helping hand to the children of sin and sorrow 

 at home. Indeed we consider his existence to be a mere fig- 

 ment in the brain of croakers, whose own benevolence shines 

 nowhere. So we anticipate no objection from those who are 

 most alive to the pressing wants of the home population 

 to our quoting with pride the Missionary Societies which are 

 at work on the West Coast of Africa. The societies are sixteen 

 in number. Of these six are British, seven American, two 

 German, and one West Indian. These societies maintain 104 

 European or American Missionaries, have 110 stations, 13,000 

 scholars in 236 schools, and 19,000 registered communicants, 

 a number which probably represents a Christian population of 

 60,000. 



It is particularly pleasing to see the zeal of our American 

 brethren; they show the natural influences and effects of 

 our Holy Religion. With the genuine and true-hearted it is 

 never a question of distance, but of need. The Americans 



STATIONS. 



Home 



Mediterranean 



North America and "West Indies 



Brazils 



Pacific 



West Coast of Africa 



Cape of Good Hope 



East Indies and China 



Australia 



Irregular Force 



Ratio 



per 1000 of men 



sick daily. 



48-1 

 61-8 

 60-4 

 43-4 

 58-9 

 620 

 76-7 

 86-7 

 40-0 

 77-4 



Ratio 

 per 1000 of 

 invalidings. 



31-2 

 45-4 

 36-2 

 27-7 

 36-2 

 38-0 

 31-3 

 61-6 

 28-4 

 26-5 



Ratio 



per 1000 of 



deaths. 



9-6 

 10-4 

 42-1 

 161 



7-9 



34 

 IS 

 2G 

 13 

 10 



"No detailed information has been 

 obtained respecting the loss by death 

 of the civil servants of the Government 

 on the West Coast; but it may be 

 stated that the loss of life from climate 

 amongst this class is by no means 

 large. The facility with which offi- 



cers of all the Services who suffer 

 to any dangerous extent from disease 

 are permitted to return home on 

 sick leave, must operate to diminish 

 considerably the number of fatal 

 cases." — Beport of Colond Ord, 

 p. 30. 



