IN WESTERN AFRICA. 
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* CHAPTER XLIII. 
HOW TWO CHIEFS WHO WERE AT ENMITY BECAME 
RECONCILED. 
Besides the wonderful work of grace at Shen- 
gay during the year 1872 another remarkable 
event took place near its close, which exerted a 
favorable influence in behalf of the mission, and 
gave the missionaries, especially Mr. Goiner, more 
power over the people than they ever had before. 
Mr. George Caulker, and Mr. Richard Caulker his 
cousin, are the . principal chiefs of the Sherbro 
tribe ; but they had been bitter enemies for 
about six years. This kept the country in con- 
stant unrest and trouble. Other sub-chiefs and 
influential head-men had taken sides in this quar- 
rel, and hence large numbers of the people . were 
in opposition to each other. The result \vas, fre- 
quent wars, and rumors of wars, and ditflculties 
of smaller import, between the contending parties. 
Mr. Lefever, a colored man, a subject of the 
colony of Sierra Leone, and Mr. Gomer, feeling 
