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SHEPvBRO MISSION. 
open a mission in or near his own town, which 
was located on the mainland sixty miles south- 
east of Freetown, and about the same distance 
north-west of Good Hope Station, on Sherbro 
Island. Mr. Thomas Stephen Caulker, the head- 
man, was not inclined to grant any such privilege. 
Believing it to be the best site he had seen, Mr. F. 
visited the old man again and again, and offered 
every inducement he could bring to bear on the 
mind of Mr. Caulker to induce him to irrant the 
request. But in vain. The old man could neither 
be coaxed nor hired to yield; and for the present 
Mr. F. had to abandon the hope of locating at 
Shaingay. 
Time passed. Mr. F. visited various places on 
the coast, and made two long journeys inland, 
one on the Big Boom River, traveling more than a 
hundred miles in a frail canoe rowed by the 
natives. During these travels he declares he 
saw some of the finest country he ever looked on. 
But no site for a mission was obtained. It was 
too soon to begin so far from the coast. 
He continued thus to labor and prospect till in 
December, when he was again prostrated with 
fever. From this attack he did not recover suflS.- 
ciently to do any very effective service as a mis- 
sionary. Accordingly he remained most of the 
time in Freetown, hoping to so far regain his 
