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SHERBRO MISSION, 
would be an easy matter to adopt the penny- 
wise and pound - foolish policy. They might 
select some site and spend time and money on 
it only to discover by and by that it would 
not do at all. They had neither time nor mon- 
ey to waste. So they made a number of ex- 
plorations up the rivers, as well as up and down 
the coasts; made inquiries of other missionaries 
and of natives. All the places visited were so 
objectionable as to cause them to hesitate to 
pitch their tent. They spent some time at 
Mendi Mission, under the control of that great 
and good man. Rev. George Thompson. Mr. Kum- 
ler, in company with Mr. Brooks, made a voyage 
up the Big Boom River. He saw many objects 
of interest, and especially much need of evan- 
gelistic labor; but the dangers growing out of 
the climate, the swamps, the wild animals, and 
the wild natives, were so many and serious that 
he could fix upon no spot where he deemed it the 
part of wisdom to establish a missiom 
At length Mr. Shuey and Mr. Flickinger sailed 
up the Jong River to explore the interior some- 
what, and if possible secure a location for a 
mission. Passing Weela, and other towns of in- 
terest, they reached at length a kind of horse- 
shoe bend in the river, about sixty miles from 
coast, on which was situated a town name Mokelli, 
