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such trades as are needed in that country 
has been obtained. You will find there 
shoemakers, tailors, blacksmiths, carpenters, 
masons, sawyers, painters, watchmakers, 
etc. 
The Colony is well supplied with week- 
day and Sabbath schools, conducted by 
colored teachers ; and it has also quite a 
number of clergymen who were raised up 
in the Colony ; some of whom reflect honor 
upon their calling. lam not blind to the 
manifold wants still existing within the 
Colony, but when I compare it with those 
places where heathenism reigns undisturbed^ 
I rejoice in the great work that has been 
effected. Many sincere Christians inhabit 
the Colony now; and some have already 
died in the faith, and have gone to heaven- 
"We might refer to other places on that 
coast, and indeed we need not go outside of 
Mendi Mission to obtain abundant proof 
that the labor of Missionaries among that 
people is not in vain. No one can go into 
the schools of Mendi Mission without 
being favorably impressed with the im- 
provement the pupils have made, in the 
