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Mr. Caulker’s consent was obtained in tbe month 
of March ; but the rainy season being close at band, 
nothing was attempted until tbe beginning of the 
dry season, about seven or eight months afterward. 
Pending the negotiations with Mr. Caulker tbe 
writer went to Liberia and spent near a month 
there, visiting the chief points of interest in that 
young republic, especially places along the St. 
Pauls River, as far as it is navigable. He fully 
satisfied himself that Sbengay was more healthy, 
and in other respects preferable to it as a mission- 
field; and this is true of all the country he was 
permitted to see during the four difierent times he 
w’as in Africa, embracing the entire coast from 
Goree to Liberia. God greatly favored us in 
giving us so good a location. And no less marked 
was his goodness shown us as a church in raising 
up when he did the gifted, zealous, and eloquent 
Rev. J. C. Bright, corresponding secretary of 
our Board of Missions at the time the African 
mission was commenced, through whose untiring 
and effective labors the Church was aroused to 
engage actively in the work of missions, both at 
home and abroad, and who never allowed any 
obstacle to weaken his zeal in favor of projecting 
and prosecuting the mission in Africa 
