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MISSIONAEY LIFE 
CHAPTER XXXVI. 
LOCATION OF SHERBRO MISSION. 
The first missionaries to Africa, sent there by 
the United Brethren in Christ, were Revs. W. J. 
SHuey, D. C. Kumler, and the writer, who landed 
in Freetown, Sierra Leone, February 26th, 1855, 
After remaining there a few days, they sailed 
down the coast about one hundred and twenty 
miles to Good Hope, on Sherbro Island — the name 
of a mission-station in charge of the American 
Missionary Association. This, by mutual agree- 
ment, became their temporary home, and they at 
once commenced prospecting the country along 
the Little Boom, Big Boom, Jong, and Bar- 
groo rivers, to find a suitable place at which 
to open a mission. Mo Kelli, on the Jong River, 
being a large town, and near to a number of other 
towns having a large population, was thought to 
be a good point at one time ; but it being difficult 
to reach, owing to the falls in the river, eleven 
miles below, over which canoes and boats could 
