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to get money, and to take care of other interests 
Qonnected with the mission, the writer made a 
third voyage to Africa in the fall of 1861, return- 
ing the next spring. This trip cost the Church 
no money. It was attended with much peril by 
sea, and vexation and trial in. Africa, hut proved 
entirely successful in accomplishing the end for 
which it was made. The conspiracy in Freetown 
(for such it was) to defraud the mission of the 
property there, by the interposition of a kind 
Providence did not succeed. The property was 
sold, and the money obtained with which to pay 
most of the debts of the mission, and to make ar- 
rangements for future operations. 
In the summer of 1862 Mr. Billheimer was 
marriedto Miss Amanda L. Hanby, daughter of Ex- 
bishop Hanby, and the following September himself 
and wife sailed for the field he had left the pre- 
vious year. They were permitted to pursue their 
labors about two years, when failing health 
compelled them to return to America. Again the 
work was left in charge of Mr. Williams for nearly 
one and a half years. During this time several 
persons received and accepted appointments to 
go to that field, but for various reasons none of 
them went. 
In the fall of 1866 Eev. Oliver Hadley and wife 
were appointed to go, and reached the mission the 
