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place to another by natives; and as a rule, what- 
ever they can place on their heads they walk off 
with, and with a steady and upright a gait, as if 
this was the original design in giving the people 
heads. 
Many of the people live in huts made of poles, 
thatched with straw or wild grass, and then plas- 
tered or daubed with mud both within and without. 
But there are some excellent houses. The town 
is regularly laid off, and some of the streets are 
well graded and paved. This colony is owned 
and governed by England. Queen Victoria ap- 
points the governor. 
Here our brethren tarried a few days, feeling 
that they were strangers in a strange land. But 
everything they saw and heard reminded them 
that this was a heathen country. The people 
needed somebody to tell them that Jesus died for 
them, loved them, and would save them if they 
believed in him. They had heard and thought 
much about the poor heathen before they left 
home ; now they saw them. They felt, moreover, 
that they had done well to have it in their hearts 
to carry the gospel to them. There were several 
good churches in Freetown. These were fruits 
of missionary labor, and our missionaries were 
strengthened in the conviction that the gospel is 
the power of God unto salvation for all people, 
