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mined to make a third voyage to Africa. He left 
Philadelphia in N^ovember, 1861 , and after a tedi- 
ous and dangerous voyage reached Goree, the chief 
town of a French colony about eight hundred 
miles north of Sierra Leone. Here the vessel put 
into port and remained two weeks. Thence she 
sailed down the coast to Gambia, and there they 
tarried two weeks longer. Thus, after a long and 
perilous voyage across the Atlantic, he was de- 
tained from Freetown, at which port he was 
promised a speedy landing, a whole month* 
However, he reached Freetown at last, and with 
all speed hastened to Shaingay Mission. He 
found the affairs of the mission in a better condi- 
tion than he expected. There were several debts, 
however, that he had some difficulty in adjusting. 
But by the dint of effort he succeeded in paying 
the last dollar against the mission, and in making 
arrangements for Mr. Williams to get along an- 
other year without further trouble. 
But the main object of his visit was not yet 
accomplished. He must sell the Freetown prop- 
erty. He soon found a customer; but though 
he had thoroughly equipped himself with a power 
of attorney in this country, and every qualification 
he thought necessary to make a deed, if he could 
only find a buyer when he got there, Freetown 
lawyers and judges would accept no title that ho 
