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minister of the gospel. The ruins of his slave- 
pen are still there. 
The mission-land, and that occupied by the 
Sherhro tribe, is mostly well adapted to the 
growth of coffee, cotton, sugar-cane, arrow-root, 
ginger, rice, yams,' cocoa, sweet-potato, cassada, 
oranges, bananas, plantains, figs, olives, cocoa-nuts, 
African grapes, plums, tamarinds, guava, papaws, 
pine-apples, sour-sop, sweet-sop, and other varieties 
of fruits and vegetables. There are on the mission- 
premises an abundance of rock and timber for 
building purposes, among them many palm and 
other valuable trees. It is altogether a desirable 
place, and of easy access. 
The town of Shengay, where the principal chief 
of the Sherbro tribe resides, is but one half mile 
from our mission-buildings. It being the metrop- 
olis of the Sherhro country, and so near the mis- 
sion, it is superior to ordinary- African towns, es- 
pecially the newer portions of it, where there are 
streets, which is quite an unusual thing in native- 
built towns. Hear its center is Zion Chapel, a 
house built for the mission by Chief Caulker 
and his people, in which both a day and Sab- 
bath school, as well as regular religious services, 
are held, the only place where these could be con- 
ducted properly, in or near Shengay, before the 
completion of the new stone chapel on the mission- 
