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hundred for lumber in ^Freetown, and on the 
ground here it cost seven dollars per hundred. 
Missionaries must have lumber to build houses in 
which to live, teach, and preach. We also bought 
native lumber, which is quite irregular in thick- 
ness, and green, for four dollars and a half. We 
paid thirty-six cents for a lamp-chimney, worth 
eight or ten cents ; and everything in the furniture 
line is very costly here. 
Missionaries must have boats. To keep the 
boats and buildings in repair is a constant bill of 
expense; and to run a boat, five or six men are 
needed, who cost, in this country, from six to eight 
dollars a month. 
The cement sent here to fix the bank cost in 
New York a dollar and sixty cents per barrel; to 
bring it to Freetown cost two dollars and fifty 
cents, and from Freetown to Shengay one dollar. 
Then to get it from the vessel to the schooner, and 
from the schooner ashore, cost about forty cents 
more per barrel. Some extra charges were made 
for cooperage, etc., so that it cost here about six 
dollars per barrel. 
Mr. Gomer took his sick wife to Freetown to 
obtain medical attention. He rented a house for 
thirteen dollars a month. In less than a week 
the doctor told him he must take his wife to 
Regent, a mountain-town five miles away, if she 
