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native helper, alone again, which, with other dis- 
couraging features connected with the work, 
caused Mr. Billheimer to write the following: 
“Mr. Wilson is compelled to return home. We 
owe Ml’. Heddle a large sum of money. My own 
health is so precarious that I shall have to leave 
soon ; and altogether, the news to you is sad. I 
fear and tremble.” Mr. Billheimer’s health im- 
proved some, and he was enabled to remain a year 
after the date of this letter before coming to 
America. 
Owing to a lack of money to meet the expenses 
of the mission, and our place near Shengay proving 
to be more healthy than was expected, there was 
less necessity to retain the Freetown property, 
and much need for the money in it. Mr. Billheimer 
was accordingly instructed to sell it. He soon 
found a purchaser ; but owing to the technicalities 
of Sierra Leone law, and the unwillingness of some 
interested parties to do right, he was unable to 
give a good title for it. After doing all that his 
legal advisers suggested, he still failed to satisfy 
the purchasers. Early in the year 1861 he wrote 
home that he had done his utmost, but could not 
adjust the difficulty; and in a few months after- 
ward he came to America to recruit his health, 
again leaving the misson in charge of Mr. Williams. 
To make some disposition of this property so as 
