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following December. Tbey found tbe buildings in 
bad condition ; and there was also strong opposition 
to our operations there upon the part of Chief 
Caulker and other influential citizens of Shengay, 
and the neighboring towns. Various reasons were 
assigned for this, chief of which they evidently did 
not mention, namely, a desire to see the mission 
fail. Then, too, they soon found out that the influ- 
ence of Mohammedanism, purrowism, polygamists, 
slave-holders, and the advocates of the liquor- • 
traflS.c were ‘against them and the work they 
sought to accomplish. These combined, with the 
deep degradation of the people, constituted 
altogether an unfavorable state of aftairs. The 
trafiic in ardent spirits is held in high esteem there 
by many, and for the same reason as here, name- 
ly, the money that is in it. Slave-holders, there 
as elsewhere, know that when slaves become edu- 
cated and enlightened they are not so easily kept 
in bondage. Polygamists can not see the wrong 
there is in one man having from two to twenty 
so-called wives so long as they may be used as 
slaves, to labor and procure for him a livelihood. 
Purrowism, which has exerted such a wonderful 
influence over the people, must continue its secret, 
cruel, and diabolical work; and African Moham- 
medans, as they can read the Arabic, and allow 
such abominations as slavery, polygamy, gregree- 
