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MISSIONARY LIFE 
CHAPTER XXXVII. 
SHENGAY MISSION-STATION. 
A brief description of Shengay Station, which 
has been and will doubtless continue to be head- 
quarters of Sherbro Mission for years to come, 
with some of its surroundings, will be both in- 
teresting and profitable to all who read this book. 
It is a cape on the mainland, containing about one 
hundred and fifty acres of land, lying between the 
seventh and eighth degree of north latitude, and 
about sixty miles south from the city of Freetown. 
Its altitude is about twenty feet above ocean at 
high tide, which, with the fact that it is surround- 
ed on three sides by salt-water, makes it quite a 
healthy and beautiful place. A few rods to the 
west of the northern point of the cape lies 
Williams Island, and about three miles to the 
north-west are the Plantain Islands, three in num- 
ber, the largest having been the head-quarters of 
Mr. John Xewton, a daring and cruel slave-trader 
at one time, and afterward a noted and successful 
