IN WESTERN AFRICA. 
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groans, tears, and blood from many who were 
^‘created in the image of God.’’ Man’s inhu- 
manity to man causes countless millions to 
mourn.” 
Through the influence of the Mendi and Sher- 
bro missions and the vigilance of the officers of 
the colony of Sierra Leone, and of traders and 
missionaries generally, the traffic® in slaves has 
been largely suppressed — on the west coast 
especially, in the country where our own mission 
is located. It has of late become- so difficult, to get 
their slaves away without being detected, arrested, 
and punished, that few persons are now willing 
to take the risks which are necessarily connected 
with it. 
