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and died. The people said that bad swear that 
he swore on the Bible, that white man swear, 
had caught and killed him. Poor little Mary 
Ann was sold or traded to the Soosoo people for 
a cow. Oh, how very sad we felt when we heard 
of it. 
Piomi is chief of the Turtle Islands. Although 
# these islands — twelve or fifteen in number — belong 
to the British, they allow the natives to manage their 
own affairs, religiously and politically, as there is 
not enough trade here to make it profitable to 
keep a government official. Piomi is a man 
between fifty and sixty years of age. In 1871 he 
came over to Shengay on a visit, and to see a 
girl that had been given him for a wife when she 
was yet a child. She was given him by the old 
king ; but she was left with her mother until she 
was old enough to become his wife, so he returned 
to his home to wait two years longer. Mission- 
aries were now in Shengay. Susannah — for that 
was the girl’s Christian name — became interested 
on the subject of religion. Mrs. Hadley, one of 
the missionaries, took a great interest in her. She 
obtained pardon and was happy in her Savior’s 
love. But time fiew, and the old heathen chief, 
who already had a great number of wives, came 
for his young bride. This was a sore trial to poor 
Susannah, for she had no love for the old man ; 
